[PROSTETANTISME] FUSY, Le Franc Archer de la vraye église, 1619
FUSY, Antoine.
Le Franc Archer de la vraye église, contre les abus et énormités de la fausse.
s.l., Aux dépens de l'autheur, 1619.
8vo (175x102 mm), (4)-932 pages. binding : Contemporary full vellum, flat spine. Spine worn. Waterstains on last pages.
First edition.
Antoine Fusy, Jesuit and professor at the Sorbonne is at the beginning of the 17th century in breach of ban with his order. The Jesuit preachers indeed defended the merits of tyrannicide, which was an undisguised threat to the King of France who protected the Protestants of the kingdom.
While Henri IV was assassinated by a Catholic fanatic, Fusy went into exile in Geneva in 1619 and converted to Protestantism.
He wrote there this very violent pamphlet towards the Roman Church, whose style is sometimes quite raw.
references: Haag ["La France protestante", V, 189 :"Cet ouvrage que Fusy dédia au roi de la Grande-Bretagne, contient un corps complet de controverse. Il y a d'excellentes choses; mais l'ivraie étouffe le bon grain. Le style d'ailleurs en est ennuyeux, singulier, trop souvent burlesque."].
Price : 1200 €