[DULAURENS] Abbé Joseph DU LAURENS
L'arretin moderne
Aux dépens de La Congrégation de l'Index|à Rome [Rome] 1775|9.50 x 16.50 cm|2 parties en un volume relié
New edition, after the original published at the same address in 1763. 2 title pages and half-title.
Contemporary marbled glazed full calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Modern brown title-label. One corner slightly bumped. Handsome copy, fresh.
L'arretin is composed of 25 essays and stories on subjects as diverse as Les nègres, L'agriculture, La chasteté ou le célibat, Histoire de maître Pierre, etc. These are all violent critiques, sometimes direct, sometimes satirical or allegorical, of biblical teaching, the church, and its history. Abbé Du Laurens (1719-1793) was a polemical and anti-religious writer whose works are all libertine and licentious, but above all, profo
Contemporary marbled glazed full calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Modern brown title-label. One corner slightly bumped. Handsome copy, fresh.
L'arretin is composed of 25 essays and stories on subjects as diverse as Les nègres, L'agriculture, La chasteté ou le célibat, Histoire de maître Pierre, etc. These are all violent critiques, sometimes direct, sometimes satirical or allegorical, of biblical teaching, the church, and its history. Abbé Du Laurens (1719-1793) was a polemical and anti-religious writer whose works are all libertine and licentious, but above all, profo
€400