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Four printed works in one volume: 1) [Barthélemy Doyen] Vie de monsieur de Paris, diacre du diocese de Paris. En France: MDCCXXXI (1731) 12mo., portrait frontispiece, vignette title page, pp: vi,1-198. With (1a) pp: 199-246 with the text continuing in Manuscript, pp: 247-248 blank, pp:249 numbered in mss. is the printed title page of 'Recueil des miracles….' the second work in the volume. With (2) Recueil des miracles operés au tombeau de M. de Paris diacre: contenant les informations faites par l'ordre de feu M. le cardinal de Noailles, au sujet des miracles operés sur Pierre Lero, Jeanne Orget, Elisabeth La Loe, & Marie-Magdelaine Mossaron : avec la requeste presentée à M. de Vintimille archeveque de Paris, par MM. les curés de cette ville du 13. Aoust 1731. [France] [Publisher not identified.] 1732. 12mo., pp: [ii], 140. With (3) Reflexions sur les miracles operés au tombeau de M. de Paris diacre au sujet d'un écrit donné au public sous ce titre Recueil des informations concernant les miracles operés au tombeau & par l'intercession de M. de Paris … No place, no date [ca. 1732]. 12mo. 16pp. With (4) Priere d'un malade qui demande à Dieu sa guérison par l'intercession du S. diacre Monsieur de Paris. No place, no date, [ca. 1731] 12mo, 8pp. Four printed works in one volume with the continuation of the first work in manuscript. The manuscript material titled 'Epitaphe' is most probably taken from a later Bruxelles (sic) edition and concludes with a Table of Contents covering both the printed and manuscript material. 12mo. (169x100mm), marbled endpapers, with the nineteenth-century armorial bookplate pasted to the front pastedown of William C.S. Carmichael of Ailly [sur somme], 'Toujours prest', bound in full contemporary polished calf, gilt, spine with raised bands, ornate gilt to panels, red leather title label, little worn and rubbed, wear to head & tail of spine, tender hinges, otherwise sound, tight & very good. Worldcat & Copac locate 3 copies in the U.K. - Cambridge, Manchester & B.L. for No. 1 & Cambridge only for Nos. 2 & 3, with no copy located for No. 4. Early editions of these works, as here, are uncommon.Francois de Paris (1690-1727) was born in Paris into a wealthy family. He was a French Catholic ascetic and theologian, a supporter of Jansenism. He became deacon of the Oratory of St. Magloire and was noted for his critique of the papal bull Unigenitus, which condemned Pasquier Quesnel's annoted translation of the Bible He gave his annual family pension to the poor, and in his retirement he lived in a state of extreme poverty. He retired to a modest house in Faubourg Saint-Marceau, Paris, where he led a very austere life. Indeed his living condition was so lowly that he "lodged in a hutch of planks set up in a courtyard, wore a hair shirt, and ate one meal a day, all while knitting stockings for the poor and giving advice to those who asked for it." He became increasingly reclusive, and his ascetic lifestyle became increasingly severe. He was apparently considered a local saint by many. Only 36 years old, Paris died in 1727. Cardinal Archbishop Noailles came to attend his funeral in the small chapel at Saint-Medard. During the funeral and after, people began to collect snippets of hair and fingernails, splinters of wood from his casket & soil from his gravesite, which might serve as holy relics. In 1731 a phenomenal series of events began being reported at the graveyard which reportedly brought about extraordinary cures, after people visiting the grave experiencing "violent convulsive movements which overtook the patients" These people became known as the "Convulsionnaires of Saint-Medard". Shortly after the funeral, his tomb became the site of religious pilgrimages, purported wonder-working and supernatural events. Miracles were said to be performed before his tomb and left people in a state of ecstasy. In 1731 there was a movement by the Jansenists to canonize Monsieur de Paris as a saint in acknowledgement of th. Seller Inventory # 1267
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