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‎Les provinciales‎

‎Provinciales‎

‎Editions Le Livre De Poche 1970 190 pages 1970. 190 pages. Provinciales est le premier roman de Jean Giraudoux publié en 1909. Il s'agit d'un livre de jeunesse composé de chapitres ou de nouvelles reliés par l'unité de lieu de la province française. L'œuvre introduit un style impressionniste dans le roman explorant l'enfance et la vie provinciale‎

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‎Les Provinciales Pensées‎

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‎Les Provinciales‎

‎Larousse 1940 1940.‎

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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." ‎

‎Les Provinciales ou lettres escrittes par Louis de Montalte, à un Provincial de ses amis & aux RR. PP. Jésuites, sur la Morale & la Politique de ces Pères. Traduites en latin par Guillaume Wendrock, en espagnol par le Sr Gratien Cordero et en Italien par le Sr Cosimo Brunetti.‎

‎Cologne, Balthasar Winfelt, 1684 In-8 de (20) ff., 613 pp., maroquin marine à grain long, plats ornés d'une succession d'encadrement de filets dorés et de roulettes à froid avec larges fleurons d'angle, dos à nerfs orné et doré, coupes et bordures décorées, tranches dorées (Thouvenin).‎

‎"Polyglotte, clandestine et des plus distinguées. Belle édition dite ""des quatre langues"", imprimée en français, latin, espagnol et italien. Elle permit aux Provinciales d'accéder à une audience européenne. La traduction latine est l'œuvre de Pierre Nicole qui se cache ici sous le pseudonyme de Wendrock. L'adresse de Cologne est fictive, l'impression passant pour provenir de l'officine bruxelloise d'Eugène Henri Fricx. Si les enjeux théologiques dans la querelle qui opposait jésuites et jansénistes ont quelque peu perdu de leur acuité, il n'en reste pas moins que ""Les Provinciales ont contribuer à imposer un art d'écrire classique"" (En français dans le texte, n° 96). Boileau tenait Les Provinciales pour ""le plus parfait ouvrage de prose qui soit en notre langue""; Bossuet vantait à Fénelon les ""grâces des Provinciales"" et déclarait que c'était l'ouvrage ""qu'il eut préféré avoir écrit"". Un portrait gravé vers 1780 ajouté en frontispice d'après le portrait posthume de Quesnel. Ex-libris ""Clapeyron"" manuscrit sur le titre. Splendide exemplaire, en parfait état de conservation, élégamment relié par Thouvenin. Rahir, Bibliothèque de l'amateur, 574. - Maire, Bibliographie des œuvres de Blaise Pascal, II, 99 et 212 : ""Edition faite avec beaucoup de soin et la typographie atteint une réelle beauté""."‎