Le Maire des Belges (Jean): La Traicte Intitule de la Difference des Scismes et des Concilles de l'Eglise, [colophon: Paris, Geffroy de Marnef, 1512] [title page dated 1511], 4to, first Paris edition, with large heraldic woodcut and two woodcut devices at end, pictorial woodcut initials (D3 soiled at outer margin), recent vellum in slipcase. [Tchemerzine VII, p.146 (with the rare form of the colophon illustrated by Tchemerzine on the right side); Mortimer 347 (though the Harvard copy has no colophon)]

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Le Maire des Belges (Jean): La Traicte Intitule de la Difference des Scismes et des Concilles de l'Eglise, [colophon: Paris, Geffroy de Marnef, 1512] [title page dated 1511], 4to, first Paris edition, with large heraldic woodcut and two woodcut devices at end, pictorial woodcut initials (D3 soiled at outer margin), recent vellum in slipcase. [Tchemerzine VII, p.146 (with the rare form of the colophon illustrated by Tchemerzine on the right side); Mortimer 347 (though the Harvard copy has no colophon)]

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The first edition appeared at Lyon in the same year. Under the guise of an historical essay, this is a work of propoganda written for Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne in their and the Pope's struggle against Venice. Lemaire, historiographer to the Queen, figures in Rabelais's nether world where he is represented as personating the Pope and making the poor Kings and Popes kiss his feet (Panatagruel I, 30).

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