SALE, ANTHOINE DE LA

J.M. Dent & Sons LTD, London. N.Y. 239p.Sider. Hardback. Nice copy. No Edition Remarks. 239 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. TEXT in FRENCH. Antoine de la Sale (also la Salle, de Lasalle; 1385/86 - 1460/61) was a French courtier, educator and writer. He participated in a number of military campaigns in his youth and he only began writing when he had reached middle age, in the late 1430s. He lived in Italy at the time, but returned to France in the 1440s, where he acted as umpire in tournaments, and he wrote a treatise on the history of the knightly tournament in 1459. He became the tutor of the sons of Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, to whom he dedicated a moral work in 1451. His most successful work was Little John of Saintré, written in 1456, when he was reaching the age of seventy. Little John of Saintré (French: Le Petit Jehan de Saintré), full title L'Hystoire et plaisante cronicque du petit Jehan de Saintré et de la jeune dame des Belles-Cousines sans aultre nom nommer, is a 1456 novel or romance written by Antoine de la Salle. It was the author's most successful work, written when he was nearly 70 years of age. Petit Jehan de Saintré gives, at the point when the traditions of chivalry were fast disappearing, an account of the education of an ""ideal knight"" and rules for his conduct under many different circumstances.