Vie de Monsieur De La Noë-Mênard prestre du diocese de Nantes, directeur du seminaire, & premier directeur de la communauté ecclesiastique de Saint Clement, auteur du Cathechisme de Nantes, mort en odeur de sainteté le 15. avril 1717. Avec l'histoire de son culte, & les relations des miracles operez à son tombeau. [Ensemble] Vie de M. Du Guet, prêtre de la Congrégation de l'Oratoire, avec le catalogue de ses ouvrages. [Ensemble] Lettres de M. Du Guet a M. Barchman Archevêque d'Utrecht, Sur l'usure & sur la conduite que devait tenir ce prélat pour déraciner cet abus

First edition. The author is Jean Gourmeau according to Barbier (Dictionary of anonymous works).
Contemporary full calf binding. Spine with raised bands ornamented with 4 acorns, roulette at foot and headcap. Red morocco title-labels. Headcaps worn. Corners slightly bumped. pp. 195-196 omitted without lack.
Jean de la Noë-Mesnard (1651-1717). Friend of the Oratorians, he was a member of the Saint-Clément community. From a merchant family, trained as a jurist, he became famous for his teaching (giving conferences every Thursday at the Saint-Clément presbytery). Theologian, editor of the 1689 diocesan catechism (a question-and-answer catechism adopted by several dioceses and introduced by the Jesuits in China), he organized courses in Holy Scripture at the Seminary. In 1695, the bishop - another Mgr de Beauvau - additionally appointed him superior of the Saint-Clément community whose Jansenism concerned him. The proclamation of the bull Unigenitus against Jansenism would disrupt the Nantes clergy and the Oratorians would be forbidden to teach, La Noë-Mesnard was suspected. He would die a few years later.
Stamp: Bibliothèque du Chapître. Viviers. Ardeche.
Bookplate of Luciani de Contagnet.