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PROVINCIALES
Emile Paul Paris, Editions Emile Paul Frères 1927. In-8 broché, couverture rempliée, 209 pages + table. Bon état
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Ludovici Montaltii Litteræ Provinciales, de Morali & Politica Jesuitarum disciplina. A Willelmo Wendrockio Salisburgensi theologo, e gallicâ in latinam linguam translatæ, et theologicis notis illustratæ, quibus tum jesuitarum adversus Montaltium criminationes repelluntur: tum præcipua theologiæ moralis capita à novorum casuistarum corruptelis vindicantur.
Coloniæ, Apud Nicolaum Schouten (Leiden, Jean Elzevier), 1658. (32), 608 pp. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, handwritten title to spine. Willems 829; Brunet, iv, 396; Tchemerzine-Scheler, v, p. 69; Peignot, Livres Condamnés, ii, 27; En Français dans le Texte 96; PMM 140 (both for the original edition). First Latin edition of the famous Lettres Provinciales, translated by Pierre Nicole (and with additions (p. 510-608) by Pierre Nicole (as "Willem Wendrockius" and as "Paulus Irenaeus")), published under the pseudonym Wilhelm Wendrock, a few months after the original French edition and just as that edition forbidden (by the Conseil d'État on September 23, 1660) and burnt. The book was printed by Jean Elzevier "pour le compte de ses parents d'Amsterdam" who had very good relations with the jansenists and were about to publish the first collective edition of the Provinciales (see Willems). Born in 1623, Pascal came under Jansenist influence in 1646. 'In 1654, after a period of discouragement and repeated meditations, he underwent a mystical experience which effected his definite conversion to a religious life ..... He now, in 1655, took up his residence in Port Royal ..... Attacks by the Jesuits on the Jansenist cause and on Antoine Arnauld led to the publication in 1656-7 of eighteen Lettres de Louis de Montalte à un Provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jesuites sur la morale et la politique de ces peres; they were composed by Pascal and are known as his Lettres provinciales. They deal with two subjects: divine grace, and the ethical code of the Jesuits ... Against the relaxed morality which the Jesuits were said to teach, he makes a vigorous appeal to public opinion by means of quotations from Jesuit works and by dialogues in which Jesuits are made, by their admissions, to cast discredit on themselves. The Lettres provinciales, written with polite irony and the utmost simplicity, lucidity, and objectivity, were an enormous success and dealt the Jesuits a blow from which they never recovered. The work was placed on the Index and was ordered by the Royal Council to be burnt (1660)' (Oxford Companion to French Literature, p. 541).After his mystical experience Pascal brought into this new existence "the gift of concrete precision which was the mark of his genius. The Lettres Provinciales are masterpieces of both the esprit de géométrie and the esprit de finesse. The first carried to the extreme the demands of a morality that was sincerely Christian and did not permit of serving two masters at the same time; the second unmasked one by one the abstract formulae, seemingly framed for juridical and secular purposes, behind which lay hidden the complaisance of the casuists. He forced the faithful Christian to scrutinize his own conscience, laying bare the depths of desire and the libido which testifies to the persistence of the original sin. (.....) If the influence of Pascal, which has been decisive in the history of positive science, in the history of French literature and in the history of Christian thought, continues to be felt in our own days, the reason is that no work invites us more to pass byond discursive abstractions and to uncover by direct contact with the realities of nature and of the soul the springs of vivifying intuition (Léon Brunschvicg in ESS, vol 12, pp. 7-8).'L'ouvrage le plus lu à son epoque, Les Provinciales ont contribué à imposer un art d'écrire classique' (En Français dans le Texte).'The Lettres Provinciales, as they are called, are the first example of French prose as we know it today, perfectly finished in form, varied in style, and on a subject of universal importance ... Pascal's weapon was irony, and the freshness with which the gravity of the subject contrasts with the lightness of the manner is an enduring triumph. The vividness of and distinction of his style recalls the prose of Milton at its best' (Printing and the Mind of Man). - Provenances: Guillaume Hoffman with engraved ex-libris "G.H.", manuscript ex-libris C. Stahl and a small stamp in blank portion of the title "Bibl. Familiæ Pajacsich."
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Les Provinciales ou les Lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un Provincial de ses Amis, et aux RR. PP. Jésuites. Sixième édition dans laquelle on a ajouté la lettre d'un avocat du Parlement à un de ses amis.
Cologne, N. Schoute, 1666. In-12, (12) ff., 476 pp., veau brun, dos à nerfs orné (Rel. de l'époque).Ces lettres fictives des Provinciales, contre les Jésuites, furent publiées successivement de janvier 1656 à mai 1657. La Lettre de l'Avocat, parue pour la première fois , est attribuée à Antoine Le Maître.Ex-libris manuscrit répété : Gaudet, 1812.Coiffes restaurées. Petites taches.
Provinciales. Hommage à Anne-Marie Cocula. 2 vols.
PuBordeaux.2009.2vols.in-8,couv.souples reliées par une jaquette identique.1003 p.TBE.
Les Provinciales, ou lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jésuites, sur la morale & la politique de des pères...
...Avec un discours préliminaire contenant un abrégé de la vie de M. Pascal & l'histoire des Provinciales. Sans lieu ni date, 1754. In-12 (145x90mm) relié en demie basane d'époque, dos droits à caissons dorés, plats toilés ; LXXXIJ - 336 p. Très bon état intérieur (malgré de légères rousseurs). Frottements d'usage sur les coins et les dos. Bon exemplaire.
Les Provinciales, ou lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP. Jésuites, sur la morale & la politique de des pères...
...Avec un discours préliminaire contenant un abrégé de la vie de M. Pascal & l'histoire des Provinciales. Sans lieu ni date, 1766. In-12 (145x90mm) relié en pleine basane racinée d'époque, dos droits à caissons dorés, tranches jaspées ; LXXXIJ - 336 p. Très bon état intérieur (malgré de légères rousseurs). Frottements d'usage sur les coins et les dos. Bon exemplaire.
