BRUYERE, JEAN DE LA

Édition d´art Édouard Pelletan, Paris. 1922. 401+481p.Sider. Demi-veau. Tres bon état. Portrait et fleurons dessinés et gravés sur bois par J.-L. Perrichon. Collection Philosophes et Moralistes, n.° 4. 155x105mm, VII - 401 + 481pages, reliure toile avec pièce de titre et d'auteur dorés au dos. Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645-11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire. His critical book, Caractères appeared in 1688. It garnered numerous enemies, but despite that, most notations about him are favorable—notably that of Saint-Simon, an acute judge and one bitterly prejudiced against commoners generally. A curious passage in a letter by Boileau to Racine exists, however, in which the writer regrets that ""nature has not made La Bruyère as agreeable as he would like to be.""