Discours prononcé le 15 avril 1792, par Monsieur l'évêque de Viviers, à la bénédiction des drapeaux des deux bataillons de la Garde nationale de la ville de Bourg-Saint-Andéol

First edition of this rare imprint from the Vivarais.

A single copy recorded in the CCFr (Grenoble).

Contemporary half brown cloth binding, smooth spine without lettering with a small scuff, boards of vat-made paper; a modest 19th-century binding. 

Charles La Font de Savine (1742–1814), Bishop of Viviers and later of Ardèche (1778–1793), was one of only four bishops in office in 1789 to swear the constitutional oath. The "citoyen Savine" was subsequently required to surrender his pectoral cross and all episcopal insignia, together with his letters of priesthood, on 1 December 1793, and to resign his public office as bishop of the diocese of Ardèche; arrested as a suspect on 15 May 1794, he was transferred to Paris. During his imprisonment, he recanted his oath before being released in October 1794.