Jérôme Garcin's Notebook: Jean-Michel Delacomptée in Versailles and Angelo Rinaldi, Quai de Conti
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Jean-Michel Delacomptée and Angelo Rinaldi, who are being reissued, prefer Saint-Simon's Grand Siècle to our times.
Delacomptée at VersaillesSo a publisher was found who, against all the laws and complacency of the market, had the good taste, the nerve and the virtue to bring together, in a large volume that carries the weight of the old days, the admirable portraits that the non-contemporary Jean-Michel Delacomptée devoted to French writers of the Renaissance and the Grand Siècle, but also to Ambroise Paré, the father of modern surgery, to the ephemeral King François II and to Hen…
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