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The Perroniana, the posthumous collection of bons mots by Jacques Davy Du Perron, sheds new light on the oratorical training received by Henri III at the Palace Academy in 1579. The work shows, among other things, the extent to which Du Perron resisted the quips and barbs so dear to the king. Judging that there was “nothing so contrary to eloquence”, Du Perron doubtless never honoured the monarch's command for “a thousand quips.” On the contrary, there is every indication that he translated the first discourse against Verres and the first letter to Quintus as an antidote to Henri III's penchant for the quip and as a subject for imitation intended to have the king sample Cicero and the “infinity of beautiful things” contained in Cicero's work.
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