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representative of the best published in his time; he had none of the
navigational charts produced in his lifetime; he ordered his “large Map of
the World” to be kept out of his Library [2.1]. There is no music. He
preferred Latin or English translations to original French editions. Thus
there are five publications of the writings of Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
(
his
Arustippe, Entretiens
and
Lettres)
which have an important place in
French literature because they set the perfected form of its prose
composition but
Figure 5. Places of printing of the books in the Piume Library, 1487-1704,