Les Negotiations de Monsieur le President Leannin (1659)
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Les Negotiations de Monsieur le President Leannin (1659)
by Pierre Jeannin
6 x 3 ½. In French. Published by Chez Pierre le Petit, Paris, 1659. Second Edition. Two volumes. Complete with all 944 + 713 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such. An important work from “one of the great and most illustrious ambassadors ever” (Wicquefort). Tight and secure vellum bindings with isolated, light marginal soiling and wear, all rather trivial. Spines with titles by hand. Rather elegant. Especially well-preserved internally. Not ex-library and 100% free from any ownership markings. Title page vignette with portrait frontispiece. Leaves almost entirely quite fresh and clean. A fine and handsome copy. The bindings are remarkably crisp and virtually as new internally. Little changed from the day it left the press. Early editions are not commonly seen in the marketplace. (The image of the author we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
Pierre Jeannin (1540–1622) was a French statesman. A pupil of the great jurist Jacques Cujas at Bourges, he was an advocate at Dijon by 1569 and became councilor and then president of the Parliament of Burgundy. He unsuccessfully opposed the massacre of St Bartholomew in his province. As councilor to Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, he sought to reconcile him with King Henry IV of France. After the victory of Fontaine-Française in 1595, Henry took Jeannin into his council, and in 1602 named him intendant of finances. He took part in the principal events of the reign, negotiated the Treaty of Lyon with Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and the defensive alliance between France and the United Netherlands in 1608. As Superintendent of Finances under King Louis XIII, be tried to establish harmony between the king and the Queen Mother, Marie de' Medici.
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