Jan. 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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i.E PIERRE DE TOUCHE POLITIQUE, OU PASQUINADES. 



By Eustache le Noble. Rome (Paris), Octo- 



bre, 1G88; Noveznbre, 1691. 5 vols. 12mo. 



Each of the twenty-eight pieces which compose 

 the work should have an engraved title, and a 

 separate pagination. The place of publication is 

 fictitious, and in general satirical. The first 

 volume has a portrait. 



The following is a collation from what is under- 

 stood to form a perfect copy : 



■" Tome 1. Rome, chez Francophile Aletophile. Oc- 

 tobre, 1691. 

 Le Cibisme, Le Songe de Pasqulii. Lon- 



dres, Jean Benn, 1689. 

 Le Couronnement de Guillemot et de la 

 Reine Guillemelte, avec le Sermon du 

 grand Docteur Burnet. I^ondres, 1689. 

 Le Festin de Guillemot, 1689. 

 La Chambre des Comptes d'Innocent XI. 

 Rome, F. Aletophile, 1689, with por- 

 trait. 

 " * These five dialogues have for interlocutors Pas- 

 <juln and Marforio, under which names the dialogues 

 are sometimes introduced, as also under the title of 

 Pasquinades.' (Querard, art. Le Noble.) 

 *' Tome 2. Title (no engraved title), Janvier, 1690. 



Janvier. La Bibliotheque du Roi Guillemot. Lon- 



dres, Jean Benn, 1690. 

 La Fable du Renard. Leyde, 1 690. 

 La Diete d'Augsbourg. Vienne, Peter 



Hansgood, 1690. 

 La Lotterie de Pasquin. Basle, Eugene 



Tyrannomostix, 1690. 

 L'Ombre de Monmouth. Oxford, James 



Good Kin;;, 1690. 

 Les Medaillez. Amsterdam, Eugene Philo- 



lethe, 1690. 



■" Tome 3. Title. 

 Juillet. La Clef du Cabinet de Neufbourg. Heidel- 



berg, Neopolo Palatino, 1690. 

 Aout. Le Triomphe. Fleuruz, chez Valdekin 



Bienbattu, 1690. 

 Soptembre. Les Ombres de Schomberg et de Lorraine. 



Dublin, chez Le Vieux, Belle Montaigne. 

 Octobre. La Lanterne de Dlogene. Whitehall, chez 



La Veuve Guillemot, 1690. 

 Novembre. Les Mercures, ou la Tabatiere des Etats 



d'Hollande. Hermstadt, chez Emeric 



Hospodar, 1690. 

 Dccembre. Le Roy des Fleurs. A Bride, chez Leopol 



la Dupe. 



" Tome 4. Title. 

 Janvier. Les Estrcnnes d'Esope (' burnt at Amster- 

 dam, by the hand of the hangman, by 

 orderof the States- General. The dialogue 

 bad its origin, probably, in the proscrip- 

 tion of the Ilistory of the Republic of 

 Holland by the same author, which was 

 seized wherever it was found.' — Peignot.'). 

 Bruxelles, cliez Jean Gobbin, 1691. 



Fevrler, 

 Mars. 



Avril. 



Mai. 



Juin. 



Fevrier, 

 Mars. 

 Avril. 

 Mai. 



Juin. 



" Tome 5. 

 Juillet. 



Aoiit. 



L'Ombre du Due d'Albe, with illustra- 

 tion. Anvers, Antoine Maugouverne, 

 1691. 



Le Carnaval de la Have, with illustration. 

 A la Haye, chez Guillaume I'Embal- 

 leur, 1691. 



Le Tabouret des Electeurs, with illustra- 

 tion. Honslar diik, Guillemin Tabouret, 

 1691. 



Le Reveille Matin des Alliez, with illus- 

 tration. A Monts, Guillaume le Chas- 

 seur, 1691. 



Les Lunettes pour les Quinze Vingts. 

 Turin, Jean sans Terre, 1691. 



Title. 



Nostradamus, ou les Oracles, with illustra- 

 tion. A Liege, Lambert Bonnefoi, 1691. 

 La Fable du Baudet Extraordinaire, with 

 illustration. A Asnieres, chez Jean Ic 

 Singe, 1691. 

 L'Anneau des Glges, with illustration. A 

 Venise, Penetrante Penetranti, 1691. 

 Septembre. L'Avortement, with illustration. Gerpiiies, 

 chez Guillaume Desloge sur le Quai des 

 Morfondus au Pistolet qui prend un 

 Rat, 1691. 

 Octobre. Le Jean de Retour, with illustration. A 

 Loo, chez Guillaume Pie de Nez, rue 

 Perdue au Bien Revenu, 1691. 

 Novembre. Le Prothee, with illustration. Chez Pedre 

 I'Endormy, 1691." 



Eustache le Noble, Baron of St. George and of 

 Teneliere, the author of this work, was born at 

 Troyes in 1643, of a good and ancient family. 

 His natural abilities and attainments, combined 

 with political influence, readily obtained for hiui, at 

 an early age, the post of Procureur- General to the 

 Parliament at Metz. But a dissolute life sooa 

 brought on its consequent evils — duties neglected 

 and discreditable debts — and he was compelled to 

 sell his appointment. The proceeds were insuffi- 

 cient, and he had recourse to forgery to satisfy 

 his creditors. To be successful in such a case, 

 more than ability is required. Le Noble was 

 suspected, arrested, confined in the Chatelet, and 

 condemned to nine years' imprisonment. Upon 

 his appeal, he was removed to the Conciergerie, 

 a place destined to become another scene in his 

 life of uniform villany. Gabrielle Perreau, known 

 under the name of " La Belle Epiciere," was con- 

 fined here at the instigation of her husband, who 

 indulged in the hope of thus reforming her dis- 

 orderly conduct. But a prison is hardly a school 

 of reformation, and La Belle Epiciere and Le 

 Noble were not characters to receive, even in 

 monastic seclusion, any such impression. He won 

 her affections, or the mastery over her passions : 

 the husband, frantic with jealous rage, obtained 

 for himself the satisfaction of immuring her in a 

 convent of his own selection. From this she 

 escaped, and joined Le Noble, who had similarly 



