Les Lettres - Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de 1597-1654 (Paris [Marette], 1634)
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597-1654) is considered a master of French prose; he was one of the founding fathers of the Académie française; his letters, of which the earliest appeared in 1624 and 1627, marked the outbreak of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, in which he attacked pedantry
extended preface addressed to "Monseigneur Le Cardinal de Richelieu"
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Correspondence; Literature; France