LAMENNAIS, F. [Felicite]. - Du Passe et de l'Avenir du Peuple.

Paris, Pagnerre 1841. 32mo red gilt calf backed mottled boards. A bit of browning. A small partly erased ownership stamp on the title page and the name Depiot at the base of the spine; likely Joseph Depiot of Gascony who's of no particular interest that I know of, except that he owned this and wrote a poorly thought out ode to liberty. ¶ First edition, written in prison where he was serving a year's sentence for his Le Pays et le Gouvernement of 1840. A proper renegade priest, Lamennais started well, earning the approval of Leo XII and even the offer of a cardinal's cap. By 1833 he had turned nasty and renounced all connection with the church. 1834's Parole d'un Croyant earned him what must have been one of the speediest encyclicals ever issued. And the ire of Clarisse Vigoureux. After the 1848 revolution he drew up a draft constitution which was apparently rejected for being too radical.

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