Author: Pascal, Blaise.
Title: Les provinciales, ou, Lettres de Louis de Montalte.
Description: A Paris, Chez Ant. Augustin Renouard, 1803. 2 vols. 254, 291 pp. Contem. gilt dec. h.calf, marbled covers. 32mo.The famous letters of the fictional Parisian traveler Louis Montalte, were secretly printed on 18 loose sheets in 1656 - 1657 and published anonymously. At the request of his Jansenist friends, Blaise Pascal used them to polemically, astutely, and passionately ironically attack the Roman Curia, defend Jansenist teachings, and attack Jesuit morality. When the letters appeared they hit like a bomb, were put on the index and in 1660 even burned.70

Keywords: Theology 17th century Theologie / Jansenisten Jesuit Catholicism ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / III Theologie 17e eeuw Theologie / Jansenisten Jesuiten Katholicisme