Nouveau Receuil De Plusieurs Pieces Qui ont paru depuis l'Annee 1717. ou environ, au sujet des affaires de la Constitution Unigenitus

s.l. s.n., 1721. Hardcover. 4to (small). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #010080

Twenty parts, each with full or drop-title, separately paginated, and variously dated 1717-20. Contemporary mottled calf, black unlettered spine label. A.E.R. Calf is worn, worse at corners. Bowing to boards. Ffep nearly detached but holding on. Institutional rubber stamp to title. Sporadic damp staining. Collection of letters and tracks relating to the Bull Unigenitus, promulgated in 1713 at the instance of Louis XIV by Pope Clement XI. Condemning not only Jansenism but also various practices of orthodox Catholics, the Bull met with much opposition from the Archbishop of Noailles and other prominent religious leaders. In 1717 four bishops (Soanen of Senez, Colbert of Montpellier, Delangle of Boulogne, and de la Broue of Mirepoix) drew up an appeal from the Bull to a general council, and soon the party of the 'appellants' was joined by the faculties of the Sorbonne, Reims, and Nantes, and by the Bishops of Verdun, Chalons, St. Malo, &c. A short-lived truce was reached in 1720, followed by another appeal. Opposition to the Bull was slowly crushed over the next ten years, and in 1730 the Unigenitus was proclaimed an integral part of French law.

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