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49 - FEUARDENT (François). Entremangeries et gueres ministrales. …
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FEUARDENT (François). Entremangeries et gueres ministrales. C'est à dire, haines, contradictions, accusations, condamnations, maledictions, excommunications, fury & furies des Ministres de ce siècle, les uns co,tre les autres, touchant les principaux fondemens de la foy, & religion Chrestienne. Paris: veuve Sébastien Nivelle, 1604. - In-8, 161 x 103 : (16 ff.), 379 pp. miscalculated 389, (6 ff.). Dark green morocco, gilt roulette framing the boards, smooth spine decorated (early 19th century binding). Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire, 1926, pp. 101-110. - Frère, Manuel de Bibliographie normande, I, p. 467. Third edition, revised and enlarged, dedicated to Monseigneur Nicolas de Briroy (1526-1620), bishop of Coutances, and to the canons and chapter of his diocese. It follows on from the first two editions, published respectively in Caen and Paris in 1601. At the beginning of the 17th century, in the diocese of Coutances, a violent controversy arose between the Cordelier François Feuardent (1539-1610) and the Protestant doctor Jean Brouaut. At a time when religious controversy between Catholics and Reformed had lost its virulence at the end of the 16th century, this local conflict rekindled tensions. Jean Brouaut was a doctor and member of the Coutances Academy who, in the 1580s, was denounced from the pulpit by Feuardent on the grounds that he was attacking God and the law. Brouaut's defence met with the approval of the Chapter and the Bishop of Coutances, Arthus de Cossé, who disowned Feuardent from the pulpit. Feuardent was humiliated and harboured a bitter grudge against Brouaut. In 1601, he published the Entremangeries ministrales, a virulent attack on Protestant pastors, aimed particularly at Brouaut. Brouaut retaliated with his Réplique aux illusions et fumées de R. François Feuardent (1603), in which he defended his ideas with verve, mixing theological arguments, satirical poems and mocking anagrams. In it, he denounced Feuardent's excesses, calling him a "cockroach" and an "escorcheur de l'Évangile", while at the same time asserting his status as a recognised poet. Feuardent counterattacked in 1604 with this third, enlarged edition of his Entremangeries, while Brouaut, accused of forgery (for a forged signature), had been imprisoned in Carentan in 1603. He died there before the end of his trial, inspiring Feuardent to write scornful epitaphs and Claude Gauchet, archdeacon of Bayeux, to write ironic verses. Feuardent was not only a resolute opponent of the Protestants. He also distinguished himself by the violence of his preaching against Henry III and Henry IV. The edition contains two epistles, the first of which is the one quoted at the beginning, and the second is addressed "To the ministers and preachers of the Word". This is followed by a long poem entitled "Sur les divins et rares escrits de Reverend Pere Monsieur Feu-ardent, Par L.S.D.R.", then the table of chapters and finally a succession of sonnets and quatrains by Claude Gauchet (1540-162.), Adrian de Rouen, parish priest of Drosy, Longaulnay and "Guill. Machard, Lexonois". A fine copy in early 19th century morocco. Spine slightly faded.
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