Traitez singuliers et nouveaux contre le paganisme du Roy Boit. Le I. Du jeune ancien de l'Eglise Catholique la Veille des Roys. Le II. De la royauté des Saturnales remises et contrefaite par les chrétiens charnels en cette feste. Le III. De la superstition du Phoebé, ou de la sottise du Febué

First edition, rare. This is the second book devoted by the author to this subject. Manuscript bibliographical note on the endpaper, in black ink, by F. Annibal Destouches, 1834.
Half glazed camel calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with fleurons. Long-grain morocco boards with gilt roll border.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding, speckled. Decorated spine with raised bands. Gilt title. Small lack at head. Tailcap partly worn. Upper joint cracked at head and foot over 7 cm. Corners bumped.

The festivities of Twelfth Night, or of the bean and the King drinks, that is the eve of Epiphany, where people banqueted to the cries of "The King drinks", are very ancient and are still present today in the popular form of the Twelfth Night cake. Jean Deslyon, theologian, sets out in this work on a crusade against these pagan festivities, seeking to prove that originally, people fasted on the eve of Lent and that these pagan remnants and these unbridled customs come to us from the Romans and the Saturnalia.