Claude Barbin
published Lettres et Billets Galants by Marie-Catherine Desjardins
, against her will but anonymously and in a smaller print run than he had originally planned.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
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Publishing
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
This may have followed on an earlier staging of Molière's play than the first Paris performance of 18 November.
After circulating widely in manuscript, it reached print illicitly in a considerably altered form. MCV
's...
Publishing
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Love-letters written by Marie-Catherine Desjardins
were disposed of by their recipient, Antoine de Villedieu
, to Claude Barbin
the publisher. Barbin
travelled to the Netherlands to seek her permission for publication. He failed to win...