Compte rendu a un ami de la premiere partie de la réponse de Jésuites au livre des assertions.
France: n.p., 1764. 12mo. 114 pp. FIRST EDITION. Stabbed and uncut in contemporary wrappers. Item #19180
First edition of this response to anti-Jesuit literature, published anonymously. The Compte rendu has been attributed to the Jesuits Henri-Michel Sauvage (1704-1791) and Jean Nicolas Grou (1731-1803); it takes aim at the 1762 publication of Extraits des assertions dangereuses by Claude-Pierre Roussel de la Tour (1710-1798) in which he chronicles the faith violations of the Jesuits in their publications, including their writings against doctrine, sin, blasphemy, magic, astrology, fornication, perjury, the occult, parricide and homicide, suicide, and regicide among other topics. Here the authors systematically list the inaccuracies, omissions, and misinterpretations in both the Latin and French editions of Roussel de la Tour’s book, with page numbers for reference.
OCLC records only 3 copies in America (Boston College, Penn, Texas A&M); Carayon, Bib. Hist. de la compagnie de Jesus 3673; Sommervogel-de Backer 1871.
Price: $650.00