[PLANTAVIT de LA PAUSE (Guillaume) - DESFONTAINES (P. Fr. G. - Lot 116

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[PLANTAVIT de LA PAUSE (Guillaume) - DESFONTAINES (P. Fr. G. - Lot 116
[PLANTAVIT de LA PAUSE (Guillaume) - DESFONTAINES (P. Fr. G.)] Memoirs Contributing to the History of the Calotte. Basel, Heirs of Brandmyller, 1725. 2 parts in one in-12 volume: 8f., 150pp., 6pp. (the last two pages mistakenly numbered 149 and 150), 6f. (tables); one folding plate titled “March of the Calotte Regiment.” Coat of arms of the Calotte as a vignette on the title page. Old handwritten annotations in the margins and between the lines. Contemporary brown calfskin, ribbed spine, rubbed gilt, red title label, trimmed cap ends, cold-stamped fillet framing the covers, red edges. Rare first edition. The Régiment de la Calotte was founded toward the end of Louis XIV’s reign by a group of merry officers who, it seems, had nothing better to do than to mock everyone—and themselves. Medals, a standard, and a seal were struck bearing a heraldic coat of arms featuring a skullcap, a full moon, a rat, a flag, a marotte, and two monkeys dressed in clothes and boots, with swords at their sides. The members began handing out certificates in verse to anyone who committed some spectacular folly: ministers, princes, marshals, courtiers, abbots, ladies of the court, financiers, men of letters, artists, and actors—no one was spared. The “skullcap” certificate thus became a veritable indictment of foibles and absurdities.
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