DEUX-SÈVRES. 1790. THE ART OF SPEAKING FRENCH WELL. 112-page - Lot 362

DEUX-SÈVRES. 1790. THE ART OF SPEAKING FRENCH WELL. 112-page handwritten notebook by an AMERICAN entitled "Ce Cahier de Rhétorique est à moi L. ROCHEFORT Américain, à NIORT ce 9 Novembre 1790...1791" Interesting course, from the revolutionary era, or treatise, on the art of speaking French well, full of quotations, examples and explanations. Numerous chapters: "LA RHÉTORIQUE FRANÇAISE. Preliminary discourse on Rhetoric, from the definition "The Art of speaking with propriety on all kinds of subjects to persuade; This art will extend to all the means and resources that eloquence uses..."; parts of Rhetoric, invention, proofs or arguments, commonplaces of rhetoric, enumeration of parts, genus and species, causes and effects, composition, opposites, similarity and difference, circumstances, extrinsic oratorical places, the different kinds of proofs or arguments, the antimeme, the epichereme, the dilemma, manners, oratorical decorum or precautions, passions, disposition, exordium, proportion and division, narration, proof or confirmation containing refutation, peroration and conclusion, elocution, purity of language, choice of thoughts, periods, styles, sublime style, sublime sentiments, sublime figures,... allegory, irony, hyperbole, periphrasis, repetition, figures of thought, antithesis, interrogation, parallels....notebook with parchment cover, label "D'ÉPIERRIS, Marchand Papetier et relieur... il demeure à NIORT, rue du Palais, près le puits."