[PORT-ROYAL]. LANCELOT (Claude). Mémoires touchant la vie de - Lot 274

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[PORT-ROYAL]. LANCELOT (Claude). Mémoires touchant la vie de - Lot 274
[PORT-ROYAL]. LANCELOT (Claude). Mémoires touchant la vie de monsieur de S. Cyran [...] Pour servir d'éclaircissement à l'histoire de Port-Royal. Cologne, Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1738. 2 vol. in-12 of XXXVIII, 547, [53] pp. ; 519, [54] pp. Fawn calf, spine with 5 ornate nerves, t. p. in red morocco, tom. p. in fawn morocco, gilt roulette on the spines and chasses, edges speckled with red. (Binding of the period). Claude LANCELOT (1615-1695), a Jansenist cleric and grammarian, was involved in the creation of the Petites écoles de Port-Royal from May 1638. At the time, he was under the spiritual direction of Abbé de SAINT-CYRAN. He remained loyal to him despite SAINT-CYRAN's imprisonment. In his Mémoires, he recounts what he saw of the spiritual work of Port-Royal's guide. Binding rubbed and stained, interior fresh.
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