1685 2nd Edtn 8 Volumes HISTOIRE DE CONSTANTINOPLE By Louis Cousin Very Good History

1685 2nd Edition , 8 Volumes
HISTOIRE DE CONSTANTINOPLE
depuis le règne de l'Ancien Justin, jusqu'a la fin de l'Empire, Traduite sur les originaux Grecs par Mr Cousin, President en la Cour des Monnoies. De'die'e A Monseigneur de Pompone, Secretaire d'Etat.
By Louis Cousin
Louis Cousin, le president Cousin (21 August 1627  – 26 February 1707) was a French translator, historian, lawyer, royal censor and president of the cour des monnaies (The Court of Coins is a sovereign court of the Ancien Régime - the period of French history which corresponds to the reign of the House of Bourbon, from the accession to the throne of Henri IV in 1589 2 until the French Revolution , 1791). Cousin was born and died in Paris. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1697.

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Format: Hardcover,
Language: French
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Published By: Damien Foucault, Paris

sextodecimo or sixteenmo (16mo 4 × 6+3⁄4 102 × 171),Pages 5034

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An eight volume History of Constantinople (1672–1674) by Louis Cousin (1627–1707), which traces the history of the empire from the reign of Justin to “the end of the empire.” This work is predominantly a collection of Byzantine sources covering the range of the empire through Byzantine writers, including Procopius of Caesarea (c. 500–565), Anna Komnena (1083- c. 1153/54), Niketas Choniates (c. 1155–1217), and Doukas (c. 1400–1462).



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