Author: Habert de Cérizy, Germain (1615-1654).
Title: La vie du cardinal de Bérulle, instituteur et premier supérieur général de la Congrégation de l'Oratoire de Jésus-Christ nostre seigneur.
Description: Paris, chez la veuve Jean Camusat et Pierre Le Petit, 1646. (16), 53, (1), 907, (1 blank) pp. Contemporary calf with raised bands and gilt decorated spine. 4to. 25x19 cm. With engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, decorated initials, head- and tailpieces, wide margins. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Very good copy of the first edition of Haberts life of Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629), cardinal, statesman and founder of the French congregation of the Oratory (1611). This work, though, is considered more a panegyric than a biography (Hoefer). Bérulle devoted himself to the conversion of Huguenots and wrote a Discourse on Interior Abnegation. The congregation of the Oratory was modelled after the one formed some years before by St. Philip Neri at Rome. While filling the office of Superior-General of the Oratory Father de Bérulle was also actively employed in the public affairs of the time; for example, in the arrangements for the marriage of Charles I of England with Henrietta of France, sister of Louis XIII. Pope Urban VIII in 1627 rewarded de Bérulle's services to Church and State by creating him a cardinal. There was apparently an edition printed by Huré in Paris from the same year, but no priority established. Some general browning, binding partly restaurated, rubbed and with some small remaining defects; corners bumped, but a very good, solid and clean copy.

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