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CHAVIGNY DE LA BRETONNIÈRE, François de] - La Fausse Abbesse…
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383
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CHAVIGNY DE LA BRETONNIÈRE, François de] - La Fausse Abbesse…
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Estimate €100
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CHAVIGNY DE LA BRETONNIÈRE, François de] - La Fausse Abbesse ou l'amoureux dupé, Histoire Nouvelle (à la sphère). The Hague, Gerard Rammazeyn (Adrian Moetjens), 1681. In-16, (3) ff, 85 pp, yellowed paper, half leather with corners, bradel.
LEVER 161. SAUVY (Seized books) n°264. First edition. Attributed by Conlon (I, n°537) to François Chavigny de La Bretonnière, (1652 - c. 1705). He entered the Congregation of Saint-Maur against his will at the age of 18, was appointed procurator of Saint-Germain des Prés and fled the convent, taking 600 pistoles with him. Taking refuge in Holland, he wrote several pamphlets, including Le Cochon mitré (1684), for which he was kidnapped by Louis XIV's police and imprisoned at Mont-Saint-Michel. He is credited with a libertine novel: La Vénus dans le cloître (Cologne, 1683), one of Diderot's readings, which contains many of the features denounced in La Religieuse, such as forced cloistering and its deviances. For La Fausse Abbesse, the author claims to have been a witness and one of the main subjects of his story, a sentimental intrigue in a convent. Of the Val de Grâce he says "it is the most august and superb of those living sepulchres which contain so many innocent slaves in the Roman religion" and notes some of the abuse suffered by novices for minor offences.
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