MEN AND WOMEN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
By Arsene Houssaye, with beautifully Engraved Portraits of
Louis XV., and Madame de Pompadour. Two volume 12mo.
450 pages each, extra superfine paper, price $2.50.
Contents—Dufresny, Fontenelle, Marivaux, Piron, The Abbé Prevost, Gentil-Bernard,
Florian, Boufflers, Diderot, Grétry, Riverol, Louis XV., Greuze, Boucher, The Vanloos,
Lantara, Watteau, La Motte, Dehle, Abbé Trublet, Buffon, Dorat, Cardinal de
Bernis, Crébillon the Gay, Marie Antoinette, Made de Pompadour, Vadé, Mlle Camargo,
Mlle Clairon, Mad de la Popelinière, Sophie Arnould, Crébillon the Tragic,
Mlle Guimard, Three Pages in the Life of Dancourt, A Promenade in the Palais-Royal,
the Chevalier de la Clos.
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