Figure 179
Page of Course de principaux Fleuves et Rivières de l’Europe, composed and printed by Louis XV when a Child: Paris
From Gallica (scan)
1718
Louis XV was taught to print by Jacques Collombat, a distinguished Parisian printer mentioned by Fournier; and a miniature printing-house was set up at the Tuileries in 1718, where the little boy—who was then eight years old—printed some lessons in geography entitled Cours de principaux Fleuves et Rivières de l’Europe. Composé & imprimé par Louis XV Roy de France & de Navarre en 1718. À Paris, dans l’Imprimerie du Cabinet de S. M..