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[ESTIENNE, CHARLES.] Les Paradocxes; ou, Sentences débatues, & élégantement déduites contre la Commune Opinion. Title within woodcut historiated border. 122 [i. e. 121], [7] leaves. 16mo, 18th-century olive morocco; early signature of the Duc de Valentinois inked over and imperfectly washed out of title, lower portion of imprint faded to near illegibility. Armorial bookplate of the Duke of Sussex. Paris: Nicolas Bonfons, later 16th century
"The Paradoxes are Charles Estienne's free adaptations in French of 25 of the 30 Paradossi of Ortensio Landi. These were intended as examples to young lawyers who may be called upon to plead unpopular or difficult cases. Thus Charles represents such unlikely defendants as poverty, ugliness, imprisonment, war, ignorance, and women--attempting to prove that they are superior to men"--Schreiber 133 (1553 second edition, published the same year as the first). This edition not in OCLC or RLIN.
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