Sentiments and stories by
with inspiration from Laurentius Abstemius, Aesop, Aphthonius, Aristophanes, Avianus, Babrius, Samuel Butler, Cicero, Philippe de Commines, Gilbert Cousin, Guillaume Guéroult, Guillaume Haudent, Homer, Horace, Kenelm Digby, Lucretius, Luqman, Simone Majoli, Marcus Aurelius, Martial, Molière, Bonaventure des Périers, Phaedrus, Pilpay, Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, Rabelais, Jacques Régnier, Mathurin Régnier, La Rochefoucauld, Seneca, Sophocles, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Theocritus, Thucydides, Jean-Marie Verdizzoti, and Virgil
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engraved by Ausmand, Bertrand, Brunier, Doms, Dumont, Ettlin, Fournier, Gauchard, Hildibrand, Huyot, Jonnard, Laplante, Ligny, Monvoisin, Pannemaker, Piaud, Pisan, Rouget, Rouget, Sargent, and Trichon
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