1804 rare antique french book, "Poesies De Marguerite-Eleonore Clotilde De outlet Vallon-Chalys" antiquarian book, Bibliophily

Poésies de Marguerite-Eléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, depuis, Madame Surville, poète français du XVe siècle ; publiées par CH. Vanderbourg
Marguerite-Eléonore Clotilde outlet de Vallon-Chalys (Madame Surville)

Published by A Paris, De L'imprimerie De P. Didot L'aîné, 1804., 1804

"Clotilde de Surville" (ca. 1405-1498) [1] was the alleged author of Poésies de Clotilde. A commonly accepted legend gave the following account of her:

Marguerite-Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, Dame de Surville, was born to a noble Vallon Chalys [2] family in the early 15th century. She was educated at the court of Gaston Phrebus, Count of Foix, where she gave early evidence of literary and poetic talent. [2] Her mother, Pulcherie de Fay Collon, lived at the court of Count de Foix and used his library to expand her mind by reading the works of French and Italian poets. She raised a young Klotylda with the same literary tastes. Clotilde was "a prematurely developed genius and was composing verses at the age of twelve." In 1421 she married Berenger de Surville, "who left her early to fight under the command of a dolphin, later Charles VII." He was killed during the siege of Orléans in 1428. Her husband's absence from the war inspired her to heroic poems, and his death to elegiac poems. The last of her poems is a royal song addressed to Charles VIII.

In 1803 Charles Vanderbourg published some forty poems on love and war as Poésies de Clotilde. The story given in the introduction to the discovery of the manuscript was clearly a fairy tale, and the poems were considered by most authorities to be forgeries