MASSILLON, Oeuvres choisies de Massillon, 1825
MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste.
Oeuvres choisies de Massillon.
Paris, Delestre-Boulage, 1823-1825.
Six volume 8vo (215x135 mm), (4)-xlv-508 pages frontispice et 2 fac-simile / (4)-460-(1) pages / (4)-498-(1) pages / (4)-524-(1) pages / (4)-586-(1) pages / (4)-576-(1) pages. binding : Contemporary quarter red morocco, gilt spine in six compartments. Covers blind stamped. Booklets uncut. Paper with foxings. Spine slightly faded.
Beautiful copy for this edition bringing together Massillon's sermons.
Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742) was bishop of Clermont and academician, he is often compared to Bourdaloue and Bossuet.
Voltaire, who had Le Petit Carême read to him during his meals, said of him: “The preacher who knew the world best; more flowery than Bourdaloue, more pleasant, and whose eloquence smacks of the man of the court, the academician, and the man of wit; moreover, a moderate and tolerant philosopher. ».
Price : 300 €