HOUSSAIE, AMELOT DE LA (editor).:

LETRES DU CARDINAL D'OSSAT. Corrigee sur le Manuscrit original & notablement augmentee, avec des notes Historiques & Politiques.

      Paris, Jean Boudot, 1698. VOLUME 1 ONLY. Nouvelle edition, TEXT IN FRENCH. 4to, 260 x 200 mm, 10¼" x 8", half title, title page with woodcut, advertisment leaf and contents leaf plus 626 pages, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt lettering and decoration between raised bands to spine, red speckled edges. Head and tail of spine chipped, corners worn, covers rubbed and scuffed, small neat old ink inscription on first pastedown, slight age browning to endpapers otherwise a good tight clean copy. Arnaud d'Ossat (July 20, 1537 — March 13, 1604) was a French diplomat and writer, and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, whose personal tact and diplomatic skill steered the perilous course of French diplomacy with the Papacy in the reign of Henri IV of France. In the course of his diplomatic career d'Ossat wrote many letters and memoranda, a selection of which, printed in 1614, long served as models for diplomats, owing not only to the importance of the questions which they treat, but especially to the talent for exposition which d'Ossat displays in them. The Acadmie Française inscribed Ossat among the "dead authors who have written our French language most purely" and Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son that the "simplicity and clearness of Cardinal d'Ossat's letters show how business letters should be written". Image attached with this item, if you use addall please click BUY IT to see image. More images sent on request.