This paper is an edited version of a talk given by the author for the
Syracuse University Library Associates on February 18, 1988. It was
originally titled: "Gabriel Na'Ude, Seventeenth~Century Scholar Librarian
of Mazarin". Among Na'Ude's works discussed here, the George Arents
Research Library has copies of the 1903 reprint of the 1661 English trans~
lation of Advis pour dresser une bibliotheque, the 1744 Cologne edition
of Considerations politiques sur les coups d'estat, and Naudaeana et
Patiniana, 2nd ed. (Amsterdam: Vander Platts, 1703).