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DROUIN, Nicolas (dit Dorimond)

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The Feast of Peter, or the struck down atheist. Tragi-comedy by J. B. P. Molière. Following the copy printed in Paris, J. B. Loyson 1665 (Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier), 1674. In-18, 84 pp., qqs. russet, ivory wove paper, qqs. small spots on top plate. LOSADA GOYA 346. Inspired by Tirso de Molina, was first published in 1659. This was followed by the Parisian edition of 1665, the same year in which Molière's Don Juan was represented, but due to censorship it could not be published. Molière's play, which borrowed a few passages from Dorimond, was not to be printed until 1682.