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Guillaume de La Perrière
Guillaume de La Perrière (1499/1503 in Toulouse – 1565) was one of the earliest French writers of emblem books. His work is often associated with the French Renaissance. La Perrière chronicled events in his home city of Toulouse. His best known work is "Le Théâtre des bons engins", published in Paris in 1539, and was edited in later editions, published in 1540 and 1585. More recently, La Perrière's "Le miroir politique" (1555) has received attention, thanks to
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- Guillaume de la Perrière, "Le Théâtre des bons engins", introduction d'Alison Saunders, Scolar Press, 1973.
- Guillaume de la Perrière, "Le Théâtre des bons engins"; "La Morosophie", introduction d'Alison Saunders, Scolar Press, 1993.
- Stephen Rawles, « The earliest editions of Guillaume de la Perrière’s Theatre des bons engins » in "Emblematica", 2.2, 1987, pp. 381–6.
- Alison Saunders, « The Theatre des bons engins through