Author: Gisbert, Blaise.
Title: L'éloquence chrétienne, dans l'idée et dans la pratique.
Description: A Lyon, chez Antoine Boudet, 1705. (24 a.o. dedication, approbation, privilège, table of contents and 1 page with Boudet booksellers catalogue), 314, (46 detailed analysis of contents: 'analyse de tout l'ouvrage'; errata) pp. Contemporary calf with raised bands, morocco label and gilt decorated spine. 4to. 26x20 cm. Printers vignette on title, some decorated initials, margins wide, one small copper engraving at head of first leaf and one at head of page 1 (scene from the book of apocalyps). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Nice and clean copy of the final version provided by the author himself of this standard work in rhetorics, laying down sound principles of sacred eloquence, by Blaise Gisbert (1657-1731), French Jesuit theologian, rhetorician and critic. The pleasure which Gisbert took in discussing pulpit eloquence with Lamoignon, the intendant of Languedoc, impelled him to write an essay on sacred eloquence, which he entitles Le bon gôut de l'éloquence chrétienne (Lyons, 1702). He spent ten years in retouching this essay, and augmented it considerably by adding to the rules examples drawn from Holy Scripture and the Fathers, especially St. John Chrysostum. The second edition appeared at Lyon in 1715 under the title L'Eloquence chrétienne dans l'idée et dans la pratique. The work, which comprises twenty-three chapters, does not follow the rigorous order of a didactical treatise and is without the dryness of a scholastic manual. It has been rightly called un livre éloquent sur l'éloquence. It contains a series of talks on the faults to be avoided in the matter and form of sermons, on oratorical action and decorum. Gisbert's book sufficed to make its author famous, not only among Catholic clergy, but even among Protestant pastors. Bibl. de France nr. 30513185; 3 copies of this edition in OCLC on-line; De Backer-Sommervogel III, 1461. NBG 20, col. 746-747.

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