Les CRONIQS DU TRESCHRESTIEN ｸ TRES VICTORIEUX LOYS DE VALOYS feu roy de frãce q absolue Unziesme de ce nõ avecqs plusieurs aultres advētures advenues tãt en ce royaulme de France cõme es pays Voisins depuis lan mil quatre cens.lv.iusques en lan mil quatre cēs quatre quatrevingtz & trois Inclusivemēt... In-folio, tobacco calf, spine with 6 ornate bands (18th century binding). Bechtel, 147/C-344 // Brunet, Supplément I-260// BMC, VIII-289 // CIBN, C-319 / Hain, II-5005 // USTC, 70104. (73f. of 74, the last blank missing here) / a-e8, f-i6, k10 / 44 lines in 2 columns, gothic car / 192 x 272 mm. First edition of the Chronique de Louis XI, known as the Chronique scandaleuse. Mainly recounting the events of French history during the reign of Louis XI from 1461 to 1483, this chronicle is called scandalous because it mentions everything that King Louis XI did and recites things that are not too much to his advantage. The name "scandaleuse" appears in the 1611 edition, where the author is presented as the clerk of the Hostel de Ville de Paris. As for the author of this chronicle, the various editions present him as anonymous until Gilles Corrozet published his Trésors des histoires de France in 1583, in which he attributed the authorship of the text to Jean de Troye, an attribution repeated the following year by La Croix Du Maine in his Bibliothèque française. It was not until the end of the 19th century that the Chronique scandaleuse found its true author in the person of Jean de Roye, whose diary was published by Bernard de Mandrot in 1894-1896, which is none other than the chronicle we are talking about. Jean de Roye (1425-1495?) was a notary at the Châtelet de Paris, secretary to Duke Jean II de Bourbon and caretaker of the Hôtel de Bourbon in Paris. This first edition of the Chronique scandaleuse provides the complete text as we know it from two manuscripts held by the BnF. The section from 1461 to 1479 is highly developed and seems to have been written from day to day, while the section following it, from 1479 to 1483, is more summary and seems to have been added in a single block. A fine copy with wide margins. The title bears an old handwritten annotation Ancienne édition de la Chronique dite Scandaleuse du Roy Louis XI par Jean de Troyes Greffier de Lhostel de Ville de Paris. Traces of old restorations, hinges and spine rubbed and missing. Small stains to title, browning to 2 leaves (C6, C7), a worm hole to 18 leaves (A7 to C8).