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LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN, Jean-George (1715-1790)

Lot 50
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Lot 50 | LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN, Jean-George (1715-1790)
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LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN, Jean-George (1715-1790). Instruction pastorale de Monseigneur l'Évêque du Puy sur la prétendue philosophie des Incrédules modernes. Puy : Clet, 1763.

Exemplaire relié aux armes de Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, mère de Louis XVI. Nommé évêque du Puy à 28 ans, Jean-George Lefranc de Pompignan devint archévêque de Vienne en 1774. Député du clergé aux Etats-Généraux de 1789, il se joignit au tiers état et fut brièvement président de l'Assemblée nationale en juillet 1789, avant de devenir ministre de la feuille et des bénéfices. Cet ouvrage est la deuxième de ses instructions pastorales, précédant un livre sur l'hérésie en 1766. Grente, Dictionnaire des lettres françaises, le XVIIIe siècle, pp. 724-725.

In-4 (260 x 202 mm). Édition originale. Bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe gravés. Reliure d'époque : maroquin rouge aux armes de Marie-Josèphe de Saxe (O.H.R. pl. 2526), triple encadrement doré, dos à nerfs compartimenté orné de fers dorés dauphin et fleur de lys en alternance.

Provenance : Marie-Josèphe de Saxe (1731-1776, reliure armoriée) ; vente Sotheby's, 8 décembre 1924.

Copy bound with the arms of Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France.
Place of origin:France
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