PASCAL (Bl.). Provincials or Letters written... - Lot 142 - Euvrard & Fabre

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PASCAL (Bl.). Provincials or Letters written by Louis de Montalte to a provincial of his friends and to the RRs. PP. Jesuits. Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée, 1657; in-4, red mar., gilt title and date on the spine with ornamented nerves and gilt, frame of a triple thread. gilt on the plates, int. tooth. Gilt, gilt tr. on marbling (Chambolle-Duru. 1865). The following is found: Defense of the professors of theology of the University of Bordeaux against a writing entitled: Letter of a Theologian to an Officer of Parliament, touching on the question whether the book entitled Ludovici Montaltii, &c. is heretical. 1670. 51pp. Following, paginated from p.53 to p.64: Second defense of the professors of theology of the University of Bordeaux. Against various Escrits dictated by the Jesuits. Where one shows the absurdity of the claim of these Fathers, that the fact of Jansenius is inseparably linked to the Foy. FIRST EDITION OF THE 18 PROVINCIAL LETTERS, the most famous of the French religious polemics, in which Jansenius confronts the Faculty of Theology, the Assembly of the Clergy, and the Jesuits. It was also the most dramatic because, exasperated, Louis XIV decided shortly before his death to destroy this "heresy" and sacrificed the magnificent building of the Port-Royal des Champs and the nuns who lived there. The letters were printed one by one and clandestinely from January 1656 to May 1657. They were printed in 6000 copies each by various printers (including Pierre le Petit and Denis Langlois in Paris) and half of them were entrusted to a few rare Parisian booksellers (including Charles Savreux and Guillaume Desprez). The other half is distributed free of charge by the Solitaires de Port-Royal des Champs. There are many different prints of each letter, but it is not yet possible to classify them chronologically. Born of the denial of the sacrament to the Duke of Liancourt accused of Augustinism, followed by the exclusion of Antoine Arnauld
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