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Louise Françoise Duchesse de LA VALLIERE Reflexions sur la misericorde de Dieu. Par une dame penitente

Louise Françoise Duchesse de LA VALLIERE

Reflexions sur la misericorde de Dieu. Par une dame penitente

Chez Antoine Dezallier, à Paris 1688, in-12 (8,5x15,5cm), (22) 189pp., relié.


New edition after the original published in 1680. Copies fully settled.
Binding full glossy burgundy morocco contemporary. Back to Jansenist nerves. Gilt. Indoor Friesland. gilt edges.
Work inseparable from the life of Madame de la Valliere, she wrote at the end of a long illness, during his retirement years in the convent of the Carmelites. Mistress of King Louis XIV, and abandoned after seven years, she retired from the court to enter a convent. Nothing will make her give up, and she spent the last 36 years of his life in this retreat, where later on, she wrote this book in order to repair the mistakes of his past life.

700 €

Réf : 48768

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