Author: Collet, Pièrre.
Title: Sermons pour les retraites, avec des discours ecclésiastiques, des panégyriques, &c... Tome I [-II].
Description: Lyon, Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1763. xvi, 515, (1) pp.; (2), vi, 504, (2) pp. Complete in 2 volumes. Contemporary calf with raised bands, gilt spine, marbled edges and endpapers. 12mo, 17x10 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Nice copy of the first edition of Collet's homiletic work. Peter Collet, a Frenchman (1693-1770), professed theology with success in Paris. When Tournely died (1729) leaving unfinished a course of theology which the university and the seminaries held in high esteem, Cardinal Fleury, then prime minister, invited Collet to continue and complete the work, which Collet did with much success. He also made an abridgment of this work as a class book of theology for seminaries. Whilst engaged in this work, Collet composed more than forty volumes on different theological, canonical, liturgical, and devotional subjects many directed against Jansenist ideas and opinions. Small library stamp on free end-papers; spine bit rubbed.

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