Author: d’Andilly, Robert Arnauld (1589-1674); Saint Augustine (354 AD-430 AD). (Augustine of Hippo).
Title: Les Confessions de S. Augustin. Traduites En Francois, Par Monsieur Arnauld D'Andilly. Seconde Edition. [Inscribed by the French Philosopher Paul Desjardins].
Description: Paris: Jean Camusat et Pierre Le Petit, 1649. 1649. - Tricesimo-secondo (32mo), 5-5/8 inches high by 3 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in contemporary brown calf, titled in gilt with gilt ornaments between raised bands on the spine. The covers are rubbed and scuffed with wear to the corners and the leather is splitting along the top and bottom of the front joint. [32] & 600 pages, illustrated with a vignette title and a frontispiece engraved by Francois de Poilly (1623-1693) after a painting by Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674). A name is discreetly penned below the vignette decorating the title page. There is some minor dampstaining to the front edge of the last several pages. Very good.

Inscribed by Paul Desjardins to Lincoln MacVeagh "a mon aimable compagnon de voyage, M. Lincoln MacVeagh / Souvenir de Nevers / 29 dicembre 1913 / Paul Desjardins".

The statement on the title page "Seconde Edition" was convincingly challenged in an article published in Le Bibliomane moderne (June 10, 2022) by the French bookseller Bertrand Hugonnard-Roch, Librairie L'amour qui bouquine. He concludes after a careful side by side study of this edition with the so-called first edition that there is no distinction between the two apart from the title page.

At the end of the "Privilege du Roy" is the statement "Acheue d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le 1. Avril, 1649". The book was printed by Antoine Vitre (1595–16740.

Paul Desjardins (1859-1940) 1940 was a French philosopher and journalist. For thirty years he hosted annual meetings of intellectuals attached to freedom of opinion, the Decades de Pontigny. For ten days (i.e. a decade) each year many people, famous or less famous, talked and discussed literary, philosophical or religious subjects. Every day, a writer, an academic or a scientist treated a subject such as: the rights of peoples, education and work, a new literary movement, the place of religion in today's life, etc.

From the library of Lincoln MacVeagh and his wife Margaret with their "Arcades ambo" bookplate. Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. He served in the Atois, St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne campaigns of World War I as an aide to the commanding general of the 80th Division and of the Ninth and Sixth Army Corps. He rose to the rank of Major. After the war he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value. Very good .

Keywords: RELIGION; LES CONFESSIONS DE S. AUGUSTIN. TRADUITES EN FRANCOIS , PAR MONSIEUR ARNAULD D'ANDILLY. SECONDE EDITION; SAINT AUGUSTINE; CATHOLIC; CHRISTIANITY; AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO; ROBERT ARNAULD D'ANDILLY; ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE; ENGRAVING; ILLUSTRATIO

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