La guerre des dieux anciens et modernes. Poeme en dix chants. [Ensemble] Les nouveaux saints. [Ensemble] Qu'est-ce que la théophilantropie ? [Ensemble] La religion naturelle est-elle absurde ? [Ensemble] Sur la philosophie

First edition, extra-illustrated with a frontispiece by Cochin engraved by Sornique.Les nouveaux saints. Chez Dabin. Paris. 1801. Third edition. André Marie Chénier.Qu'est-ce que la théophilantropie ? A la librairie claissique. Paris.1801.La religion naturelle est-elle absurde, intolérante, contraires aux idées reçues, et conduit-elle au fanatisme ? Se trouve à la libraire du Pont Michel. An 6.Sur la philosophie. An 9. S.n. S.l.
Contemporary full green morocco binding. Smooth spine decorated à la grotesque with trellis work, roulette at head and foot. Red morocco title label. Roulette border on covers. Edges gilt. Small lack at head. One corner slightly bumped. Rubbing to head and joints. The frontispiece has been backed with paper on verso. Handsome copy.La guerre des dieux is a satirical poem in which the gods of the Christian religion and those of Greco-Roman mythology clash; it gave rise to numerous complaints from its publication, and was at the same time placed very highly in this type of production, due to the quality of its language and style. The first editions are sought after because all subsequent ones were expurgated. Following this famous poem by Parny, an amateur has gathered several texts from the same period accounting for the situation of religion in France; the texts illuminate each other, and allow one to understand the circumstances that could have given birth to Parny's poem. Chénier's second text is also a satire on religion and philosophers. Theophilanthropy emerged in 1797, a movement placing the love of God and mankind above all things and departing from the church. The article that follows is a defense of natural religion, and its adherents. The last text brings together philosophy and natural religion, and rejects all superstition. Bookplate of Auguste Dide.