Les Avantures de Monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchene
by LE SAGE, Alain René
- Used
- Condition
- Slight waterstaining affecting only the margins, head of spine restored.
- Seller
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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
An attractive copy of the second French edition of this important imaginary voyage and Canadian adventure based on the exploits of Robert Chevalier Beauchêne.
Le Sage (1668-1747) was a successful playwright and novelist, now chiefly remembered as the author of the picaresque novel Gil Blas. The novel claims to be derived from notes sent to Le Sage by Beauchêne's widow, and is a heady confection of piratical life set in the wilds of eighteenth-century Canada. Beauchêne is an Indian scout turned coast-prowling pirate, and the narrative recalls his bloodthirsty exploits in duels and ship-boardings, as well as his recollections of being sold into slavery in New England. It is difficult to sort the fact from the fiction in this rollicking tale - the Canadian Encyclopedia comments that Le Sage's work has 'many exaggerations and inaccuracies' - but it is a vivid account, concluding with Beauchêne's return to France with his plundered loot, where he dies in a tavern brawl in Tours.
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- Bookseller
- Hordern House Rare Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3011911
- Title
- Les Avantures de Monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchene
- Author
- LE SAGE, Alain René
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight waterstaining affecting only the margins, head of spine restored.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Aux Depens de la ...
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1733
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