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BOURGOING DE VILLEFORE (Jean-François, baron de). Anecdotes …
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BOURGOING DE VILLEFORE (Jean-François, baron de). Anecdotes …
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Estimate €700 - €800
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Description
BOURGOING DE VILLEFORE (Jean-François, baron de). Anecdotes ou mémoires secrets sur la constitution unigenitus. sl [Trévoux], sn, 1730-1733.
3 vol. in-12, blue morocco, richly decorated ribbed spines, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt fillet on the edges, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding).
First edition of this work based on the Diary of Abbé Dorsanne, a Jansenist involved in the violent dispute provoked by the fulmination of the Unigenitus bull (1713).
The Unigenitus Bull was the apostolic constitution in the form of a bull published by Pope Clement XI in September 1713 to attack Jansenism. It was aimed specifically at the oratorian Pasquier Quesnel and condemned as false and heretical one hundred and one propositions taken from his moral reflections, his work published in 1692 and which continued to establish his success. Far from putting an end to the divisions in the Church, this Bull provoked a coalition, or even a merger, of several oppositions: Gallican, Richerist and Jansenist. Faced with the Paris parliament's refusal to register it and the reluctance of certain bishops, Louis XIV tried to impose it by force.
Opposition to the Bull resurfaced during the Regency and called for a national council. Fleury, who came to power, made it the law of the realm by the royal lit de justice of 24 March 1730 and continued to purge the clergy, which stirred up opposition (clergy, parliament). From then on, Jansenism developed in opposition to the proclamations of the Bull.
A precious copy in contemporary morocco.
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