Description
Le Menagier de Paris, treatise on morality and domestic economy composed around 1393, by a Parisian bourgeois.
1961, 21 x 27 cm., reserved for the Friends of Crédit Lyonnais, produced by Chavane. Canvas tapestry box (slightly faded), prefaced by Pierre Gaxotte containing the translation into modern French by Jean-Paul Laurent, 88 pp. And a second volume reproducing a trimmed version of Le Ménagier de Paris (around 120 pages). A reproduction of a map of Paris around 1550 produced by O. Truschet and G. Hoyau
Written during the Hundred Years’ War « Moral precepts, some historical facts, instructions on the art of running a household, information on the consumption of the King, the Princes and the city of Paris, at the end of the fourteenth century, advice on gardening and on the choice of horses, a very extensive cookery treatise, and another no less complete on hawk hunting
Le Menagier de Paris, treatise on morality and domestic economy composed around 1393, by a Parisian bourgeois. 1961, 21 x 27 cm., reserved for the Friends of Crédit Lyonnais, produced by Chavane. Canvas tapestry box (slightly faded), prefaced by Pierre Gaxotte containing the translation into modern French by Jean-Paul Laurent, 88 pp. And a second volume reproducing a trimmed version of Le Ménagier de Paris (around 120 pages). A reproduction of a map of Paris around 1550 produced by O. Truschet and G. Hoyau Written during the Hundred Years’ War « Moral precepts, some historical facts, instructions on the art of running a household, information on the consumption of the King, the Princes and the city of Paris, at the end of the fourteenth century, advice on gardening and on the choice of hor








