[Du Cambout de Pontchateau, Sebastien-Joseph]. La Morale Pratique des Jesuites, Premier Volume. Ouelle est representée en plusieurs Histories, arrivées dans toutes les parties du monde. Extrait, Ou de Livres tres-autorisez & fidelement traduits, ou de Memoires tres-seurs & Indubitables. [Place & publisher not identified.]: 1683. [11695]
Full leather, very worn with worming in the front joint, boards well-attached with strong end paper hinges, raised bands with gilt-decorated panels, red leather title label, old paper number label at top of spine. 15 x 9.5 cm (5 6/8 x 3 5/8 inches), marbled end papers, small pink booksellers’ ticket: “Meqignon…Paris.” Bibliographical note in English on a ffep; round institutional emboss stamp on the tp and one leaf of text. [xxii], 44, 287 pp. P. 266 misnumbered as 166. The French text is in good condition, collated and complete. Good. Hardcover.
An attack on the Jesuit order as a power-hungry enemy of the Christian religion.
Sebastien-Joseph du Cambout de Pontchateau (1634-1690), French Jansenist theologian, abbot of three abbeys is Brittany. He left the beginnings of a brilliant ecclesiastical career in 1662 for a life of solitude, remained committed to the Jansenist cause ever after Church of Rome condemned the theses of Cornelius Jansen in 1653, and developed a vast correspondence in defense of those positions. He was the author of the first two volumes of La Morale Pratique des Jesuites, a polemical thrust at the morals & intrigues of the Jesuits.
