Catholic Vs Calvinist
LALLEMENT, Jacques-Charles-Alexandre.
Lettre pastorale de monseigneur l’evêque de Sées, pour la publication d’un écrit qui a pour titre: réponse d’un curé du diocèse de Sées aux difficultés qui lui ont été proposées par un protestant de sa paroisse. Séez, chez l’imprimeur de monseigneur l’illustrissime et reverendissime evêque, 1737.
12mo, pp. [2], 176; woodcut arms to title, woodcut headpiece and initial; light damp-staining to upper outer corners; a very good copy in contemporary red morocco, triple gilt fillet border to covers with small floral corner-pieces, spine in compartments lettered and richly decorated in gilt, board edges and turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, combed marbled endpapers; very slight wear to extremities; central gilt arms of Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury to covers (Olivier 2284.4).
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Lettre pastorale de monseigneur l’evêque de Sées, pour la publication d’un écrit qui a pour titre: réponse d’un curé du diocèse de Sées aux difficultés qui lui ont été proposées par un protestant de sa paroisse.
A very rare and interesting provincially printed contribution to debates between Catholics and Protestants in Louis XV’s France, with notable provenance and in an attractive binding.
After a brief introduction by the then Bishop of Séez (in Normandy), Lallement, comes the meat of the text: a reply by an anonymous priest of his diocese to a local Calvinist on matters of faith (pp. 13–176). The Catholic curate discusses each of his Protestant parishioner’s points in turn, covering the unity, apostolicity, and infallibility of the Church; Purgatory; the cult of saints; monastic vows; Calvinist and Lutheran doctrine; and schism within the Church.
Provenance: from the library of Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury (1653–1743), Bishop of Fréjus and chief minister to Louis XV, notable for his fiscal reforms and achievements in foreign policy; he was a member of the Académie Française and enriched the royal library with oriental manuscripts.
No copies traced on OCLC. CCfr records a single copy, at BM Alençon.