BOSSUET Jacques Bénigne Traité de l’amour de Dieu, nécessaire dans le sacrement de la pénitence, suivant la doctrine du Concile de Trente.

Tchemerzine-Scheler, I, 906 ; Verlaque, p. 87; Cardinal de Bausset, Histoire de Bossuet, 1819, IV, p. 26.

First edition, published posthumously.

It was Jacques-Bénigne, bishop of Troyes, homonymous nephew of Bossuet who, having inherited all the archives of the bishop of Meaux, edited the manuscript of the Treatise on the Love of God 32 years after the death of his uncle . Preceded by a long introduction recommending the work to the clergy and faithful of the diocese of Troyes, the original Latin text is followed by the French translation established by the bishop. The elegance of the style and the rigor of the argument place this important doctrinal work by Bossuet among the great successes of theological thought of the classical age.

Superb copy, bound in red morocco with the arms of Marie-Josephe de Saxe, Dauphine (1731-1767), mother of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. Marie-Josèphe de Saxe was the second wife of the Dauphin of France.