TRONCHAY, Michel. Vie de M. Lenain de Tillemont, avec des reflexions sur divers sujets de morale, et quelques lettres de pieté. 1711.
TRONCHAY, Michel.
Vie de M. Lenain de Tillemont, avec des reflexions sur divers sujets de morale, et quelques lettres de pieté.
Cologne, s.n., 1711.
12mo (165x90 mm), (14)-146-380-(10) pages and frontispiece. binding : Contemporary full sheep, spine with six compartments. Title piece is missing, spine rubbed. Fresh copy.
First edition. Michel Tronchay (1668-1733) was for many years the secretary of the historian Lenain de Tillemont (1637-1698) with whom he worked on his monumental ecclesiastical history. From this collaboration he draws this book of moral reflections very imbued with Jansenism.