[GASTRONOMY] [HENNEQUIN, Nicolas-François-Gabriel, Viscount - Lot 135

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[GASTRONOMY] [HENNEQUIN, Nicolas-François-Gabriel, Viscount - Lot 135
[GASTRONOMY] [HENNEQUIN, Nicolas-François-Gabriel, Viscount of Curel and Frenel (1739–1824), attributed to]. *Manuel de la cuisine, ou L'Art d'irriter la gueule*. By a society of gourmets. Famous gastronomic dictionary shunned for its daring subtitle. Nancy, Vincenot, n.d. [relay label concealing the Metz address: C.M.B. Antoine, 1811]. Volume in-8 (213 x 130 mm), olive half-basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt metal. 428 pages. Leather slightly faded, scuffed at the bottom of the first joint and on the cap ends. The top corners of the first approx. 10 leaves are slightly dog-eared. Published anonymously in 1811, this work, organized in the form of a dictionary, is one of the very first French cookbooks published in Metz. Its subtitle, *L'Art d'irriter la gueule*, did not bring it the expected success, and the following year, the publisher reissued it with a new title page, bearing the shared address of Antoine in Metz and Belin in Paris. The subtitle had become A Collection of Methods on the Art of Cooking, for the Use of Gourmands Who Are Not Rich (“ “We have changed the second title of this work to please those who consent to having their appetite whetted, but not to having their mouth irritated—which we have impertinently called a ‘mouth’…,” Notice). These precautions had no effect on sales, and in 1835, the unsold stock reappeared, textually unchanged but bearing not only a new title but also a new author: The New Royal Cook… based on Messrs. Carême, Brillat-Savarin, Albert… by Mr. Bauvillers (Paris, Camuzeaux, 1835). Vicaire, who attributes the work to Bauvilliers, explains in a lengthy note that the latter is a pseudonym, intended to play on the homophony with the famous restaurateur Antoine Beauvilliers. The Manuel de la cuisine is actually attributed to Chevalier Nicolas-François-Gabriel Hennequin, Viscount of Curel and Frenel, Grand Houndmaster of the Court of Lorraine and Director of the Fortifications of Metz, as mentioned in the catalog *La Gastronomie* published in 1983 by the Metz Library for the exhibition of the Mutelet Collection (no. 174). Cagle, 65 (in a note); Oberlé, 174; Vicaire, 75. A fine, fresh, and clean copy.
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