Lamennais 1782 1854 (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lovely small full leather binding (2.5x4.75"/6.5x12cm); gold edges; page ribbon; elaborate endpapers. 431pp + various prayers + Sunday Vespers. A GEM!

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 184 pages; Description: 184 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Trials (Sedition) --France. Lyon (France) --History --Insurrection, 1834. Series: Le Pays de la diversite. Language: French. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 184 pages; Description: 184 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Trials (Sedition) --France. Lyon (France) --History --Insurrection, 1834. Series: Le Pays de la diversite. Language: French. 1 Kg.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. 1st thus. 577, [1] p.; 13.5 cm. (Collections classique du Milieu du Monde. Serie rouge: essais, memoires ; 15) As new orig. red boards in dj, inside gray card slipcase.

Early edition (1st appeared in 1834). [4], iv, [5] - 191 pp. 16mo, in 8s. 5" x 3-1/4" Slight splay to boards. Age-toning to paper. A VG+ copy. Attractive, albeit later, full black leather binding.

Hardcover. viii, 241 p.; 22 cm. (Oxford modern languages and literature monographs) Assessing the background in 1833 of the Tracts for the times in the light of Christopher Dawson's discussion in The spirit of the Oxford movement: "When [Richard Hurrell] Froude returned to England affairs moved quickly. It is just possible that Dawson is right in thinking that the idea for the Tracts came from the Avenir. In view of the fate of its editor, any reference to this fact would necessarily be omitted from contemporary accounts of the decision to publish the Tracts. On the other hand, the Tracts did not resemble the Avenir very closely. Dawson may be nearer the truth when he says that Froude hoped to make the British Magazine into a sort of Avenir." (p. 97 f.) -- "In France Louis de Villefosse has derided those who have treated Lamennais as the precursor of Bidault and Adenauer. He has preferred to regard him less as a reformer than as a revolutionary, the first Christian revolutionary. This view was also taken in England by G. D. H. Cole. He wrote enthusiastically of Lamennais's role in preparing for the socialist revolution. He placed less emphasis upon Lamennais's foreshadowing of modern Trade Unionism and co-operation (in which Lamennais was by no means alone) than upon the revolutionary nature of his teaching. In this way he diminished the difference between Lamennais and Marx. 'Lamennais', he claimed, 'influenced Marx a good deal more than Marx himself realised.'." (p. 187) VG orig. brown cloth in lt. spotted gray dj.

First Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 292 pages : portrait, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; "Bibliographie": p. [281]-287. Subject; Lamennais, Félicité Robert de 1782-1854. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: 595 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Catholic Church Relations. Church and state Italy Rome. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 292 pages : portrait, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; "Bibliographie": p. [281]-287. Subject; Lamennais, Félicité Robert de 1782-1854. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description: 595 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Catholic Church Relations. Church and state Italy Rome. 1 Kg.

Pensatore francese, caposcuola del cattolicesimo liberale. Apologeta in un primo tempo del tradizionalismo cattolico contro la rivoluzione, sacerdote nel 1816, poi fervente ultramontano, dopo la rivoluzione del 1830 fondò con Montalembert e Lacordaire il giornale L'Avenir, che col suo motto "Dio e libertà" auspicava una convergenza di cattolicesimo e democrazia in senso teocratico. Alla condanna papale de L'Avenir rispose con "Paroles d'un croyant", in cui prendeva posizione per una democrazia libera da ogni tutela della Chiesa. Biblioteca Universale Sonzogno n. 80. Esemplare perfetto. Brossura editoriale, pp. 95, in 16°.

Hardcover. Nouv. edition. Tomes 1-4 (complete); 22.5 cm. Profuse pencilled notes in French in margins (not in text), cropped by binder. Contents: Tome 1. 1 partie. Refutation des divers systemes d'indifference, i-vii; 2 partie. Importance de religion [1817], i-v. [3], 410 p. - Tome 2. 3 partie. Moyen general donne aux hommes pour discerner la vraie religion [1820], i-viii; 4 partie. Le Christianisme est la seule religion revelee de Dieu, ou la seule vraie religion [1823], i-v. [3], 418 p. - Tome 3. 4 partie, vi-xiii. [3], 388, [1] p. - Tome 4. 4 partie, xiv-xvii; Defense de l'Essai sur l'indifference en matiere de religion [1821], i-xvii. [3], 380 p. -- At head of title-pages: Oeuvres de F. de Lamennais [1-4] -- Citations in Prophecy and Papacy : a study of Lamennais, the Church and the Revolution, by A. R. Vidler, are taken from this edition. Good xl set in quarter green cloth, rubbed leather title-pieces.

Hardcover. Tomes 1-4 (complete); 19 cm. Contents: Tome 1. 1 partie. Refutation des divers systemes d'indifference, i-vii; 2 partie. Importance de religion [1817], i-v. 420 p. - Tome 2. 3 partie. Moyen general donne aux hommes pour discerner la vraie religion [1820], i-viii; 4 partie. Le Christianisme est la seule religion revelee de Dieu, ou la seule vraie religion [1823], i-v. 430 p. - Tome 3. 4 partie, vi-xiii. 403, [1] p. - Tome 4. 4 partie, xiv-xvii; Defense de l'Essai sur l'indifference en matiere de religion [1821], i-xvii. 388 p. -- Tomes 1-2 without edition statement, 3-4: Dixieme edition -- Title-pages carry a blue stamp: H. R. within an oval border. VG polished quarter black leather, with silk page markers.

Lithographie v. A. Kneisel n. C. Brandt, um 1860, 16 x 11 (H).

8vo and 4to. Together 11½ pp. 4 letters with autograph address. Correspondence with his older brother, the cleric Jean-Marie de La Mennais (1780-1860), concerning his work as a Christian journalist, the failed concordat of 1817, the completion of his latest publication, and health problems. - In the earliest letter, dated 20 February 1818, Lamennais announces that he is working on the final revisions of his book, almost certainly "Tradition de l'église sur l'institution des évêques", already dreading the "annoying work on the proofs" and lamenting: "What a sad profession, that of an author!" (transl.). He also announces the organisation of "some means of defense for religion", which was supposed to be the monthly publication of a "Revue morale et littéraire". But despite the very concrete description of this publication, down to page count, price, distribution, and contributors which would have included Pierre-Denis Boyer, Claude-Hippolyte Clausel de Montals, and Antoine Eugène Genoud, it was never realized. In this letter, Lamennais also first mentions the concordat of 11 June 1817 that was already signed but would never be ratified, which was not clear at this point: "On attend, dit-on, des reponses de Rome au sujet du Concordat : reponses à quoi ? probablement à la demande d'une reduction dans le nombre des évêches. On a renoncé à instituer en vertu du Concordat de 1801, parce-qu'on a su que les évêques auraient refusé les bulles". - On 3 March 1818, Lamennais sent his brother a bill of exchange, possibly from his publisher, jointly with the letter at hand. Apparently, he had accrued significant debt with his brother, which embarrassed him: "the money disappears in my hands". He then mentions that the bishop of Rennes, Étienne-Célestin Enoch, reproached him for not having sent him a copy of his latest book, which he resolved by promising him an inscribed copy of the second edition. At the same time, he hoped that the bishop would forget his explicit wish for Lamennais to sign the copy using the title "canon of Rennes", which he did not like. - A short glimpse of the political situation with the expected resignation of Joseph-Henri-Joachim Lainé as minister of the interior, which would, however, only occur in December, is followed by a deeply pessimistic conclusion concerning Lamennais' inner life: "In my life I have never been so unhappy as I have been for two years. What I suffer is inexpressible. Before that I could still hope for a little rest on earth; now, none. I look at death and embrace it with all my heart. Far from applauding the success of my book, I see in it the ruin of the only good I had left to make life bearable, a profound obscurity; and I don't see even the shadow of a small consolation for myself". - In the following letter from 15 March, Lamennais again discusses the revue wherein he would have wanted to propose his "completely new theory of spiritual power", while admitting that "the poor revue doesn't work". He mentions a contribution by the important counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician Louis de Bonald and an article on Voltaire, Helvétius, and Rousseau by Antoine Eugène Genoud that could not be published and needed to be replaced. Apart from the revue that was already struggling before its launch, Lamennais was suffering from migraine and desired to visit his brother in Brittany. However, a possible visit by Harry Moorman, a former student from London where Lamennais had gone as an exile during the Hundred Days, kept him from doing so. His great suffering leads him to ask, "I'd like to know why we come to this world. It's not for fun, that's for sure". - On 20 March 1818, Lamennais talks about new developments regarding the concordat, mentioning a Papal brief wherein Pope Pius VII expresses "his astonishment that a treaty so solemn, so sacred as the concordat remains unenforced" and complained about the "so extraordinary delay". In this respect, he announces a forthcoming article by Pier.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Édition limitée. In-4 (26 x 23 cm), 192 pp., maroquin aubergine, dos orné à 4 nerfs, dentelle or et argent et 4 filets or d'encadrement sur les plats, dentelle sur les coupes, quadruple filet à l'intérieur des plats, couverture et dos conservés, tranches dorées (reliure signée Charles Meunier 1909). Tirage limité à 166 exemplaires numérotés (n°26). Celui-ci un des 50 exemplaires sur vélin, contenant une suite à part de toutes les eaux-fortes tirées avant la lettre, une suite sur vélin des 42 encadrements floraux non utilisés et un état de tous les culs-de-lampe contenus dans l'ouvrage. Une suite unique des 45 eaux-fortes de Carlos Schwabe sur papier de Chine a été ajoutée. Exemplaire imprimé pour Monsieur Frédéric RAISIN, grand ex-libris gravé, à l'intérieur du premier plat, portant la traduction de son nom en latin : FR. UVAES, avec la devise : POST TENEBRAS LUX.SUB SOLE et : CAUS PAT. IN CURIA GENEVA.Bel exemplaire.

In-16° (cm. 16,8x10,7), pp. 409, (3). Prima monarchico, antigallicano; oppose alla fallibile ragione individuale, l'infallibile comune sentire dei popoli; solo più tardi (1829) divenne liberale e fu condannato dal papa. Qui, vari studi: contro i gallicani, sui Concordati, diritto matrimoniale, Leibniz, inumazione degli SCOMUNICATI, dispotismo e materialismo ecc. UNITO: ROBIANO Fr. Louis comte de Borsbeek (Bruxelles 1781 - Torino 1855). De la VIOLATION des CIMETIERES. Ibidem, 1825. Pp. (2), 82, (2). La storia e le ragioni dei modi di seppellire, il culto dei morti. Il problema del forzato allontanamento (imposto dal decreto di St.-Cloud) dei sepolcri dalle Chiese, lo stesso che aveva ispirato nel 1806 I Sepolcri del Foscolo. i 2 voll.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Language: fre,gre Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1846 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. THERE MIGHT BE DELAY THAN THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE DUE TO COVID-19. Pages: 406 Pages: 406.

8vo. 1 page on bifolium with integral address panel. To Monsieur Gaubert with apologies for making him wait for a servant called Victor, who would be taken into service, and a new appointment for the meeting: "Je regrette beaucoup, cher Docteur, de vous avoir fait attendre le petit domestique que vous voulez bien prendre à votre service. Ce retard a tenu à des circonstances que je ne pouvais prévoir. Mais demain, à 2 heures, Victor sera chez vous, et je crois être sûr que vous aurez lieu d'être content de lui [.]". - Counter-leaf with a small tear due to opening of the letter; some brownstaining from glue residue.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Language: fre Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from BK edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. THERE MIGHT BE DELAY THAN THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE DUE TO COVID-19. Pages: 460 Pages: 460.

4to. alargado; 2 hs., 399 pp. Primera edición. Encuadernación de la época en media piel con lomera nervada. Publicada a su salida de prisión, esta obra es una sátira altamente mordaz contra el despotismo y los gobiernos conservadores, que Lamennais estructura en forma de cartas entre dos interlocutores imaginarios, representación maniquea de fuerzas políticas y sociales contrapuestas: el Bien, representado por los Amschaspands y el Mal por los Darvands. Fue incluida en el Índice de Libros Prohibidos.

4 Lettres autographes signées ou paraphées et une pièce autographe 7 pp. 1/2 Petit in-12 et in-16 "Samedi 28 mars", "vendredi", "Lundi 8 décembre" Adresses aux versos (2). Bon Ensemble de trois lettres de Lamennais (une signée et deux paraphées) et une pièce autographe. 2 lettres autographes paraphées, adressées à Hippolyte Romand (1808-1877), médecin et dramaturge, rédacteur de feuilletons dans le journal de Lamennais. Au sujet d'une affaire financière désastreuse :"[.] Ce pauvre M.[Mathieu] a achevé ma ruine. Je suis loin de lui en faire aucun reproche ; seulement je regrette le peu d'aisance que si péniblement j'avais cru me préparer pour mes vieux jours [.]". Il demande à son correspondant de faire suivre une lettre à ce Mathieu, et ajoute : "Il y a un an je me laissai aller à porter à un légitimiste pour le tirer d'un extrême embarras. C'est encore comme si je les avais jetés à la rivière". Etajoute l'adresse du fameux Mathieu, à Londres : 30 Weymouth Street, Portland Place. Lettre autographe signée, adressée à E. Guillemot, "27 rue Royale". Il demande des nouvelles de l'affaire Verberie, village de l'Oise où il souhaitait acheter une petite propriété: "[.] Le propriétaire, sitôt qu'il a su qu'on pensait à acheter sa maison, a déclaré qu'il ne voulait plus la vendre, à moins qu'on n'achetât en même temps de mauvais bois évalués par lui à un prix déraisonnable [.]". "D'extravagance en extravagance" il ne veut pas suivre le propriétaire sur cette "route". Pressé par le temps, Lamennais veut savoir s'il peut espérer pouvoir traiter tout de même avec ce vendeur. Ces trois courriersfurent publiés dans l'ouvrage de Louis Le Guillou,Félicité Robert de Lamennais,Correspondance générale, 1841-1854.Colin, Tome VIII, 1981, p. 410 et 550, avec la précision :collection de Mme Geistdoerfer. Liste autographe de la main de Lamennais. Elle contient les noms et parfois les adresses deCormenin, Arago, Martin (de Strasbourg), Mauguin, Maillefer, Ch. Didier, Leroux, Béranger, Pascal, Louis Blanc, Marliani, Clément, Dupont, Mme. Champy-Boiserand [cousine de Lamennais], M. de Musigny, Cadet, Eloi Jourdain, Blaize, Chateaubriand, etc. On joint une lettre de Mme Champy-Boiserand, cousine et correspondante de Lamennais : "Mme Champy Boiserand renouvelle tous ses remerciemens à Monsieur [probablement le médecin Pierre-François] Rayer. Elle lui fait remettre deux lettres de l'abbé de Lamenais [.]". Elle propose de procurer à Rayer d'autres autographes pour compléter sa collection, commeLaplace, Lagrange et Legendre, etc. S.l.n.d. 1 p. in-8. Philosophe chrétien, ultramontain, précurseur du catholicisme libéral et social. Il rompt avec l'Eglise, en 1834, en publiant Paroles d'un croyant, aussitôt condamné par Grégoire XVI.

8vo. ½ p. on bifolium. With autograph address and red wax seal. To Edmond Laporte in Paris, probably an autograph collector, apologizing that he can only send him this "simple letter", which nevertheless should count as a token of his good will: "Je regrette, Monsieur, de ne pouvoir vous envoyer que ce simple billet. Il vous prouvera du moins la bonne volonté de celui qui vous prie d'agréer l'expression cordiale de ses sentiments". - With the stamp of an autograph collection underneath the address panel. Traces of folds.

3 lettres autographes signées 5 pp. In-12 Encre brune sur feuillets doubles. Une adresse. Cachet de cire rouge au chiffre LM conservé (brisé à l'ouverture). Bon Ensemble de trois lettres autographes paraphées de ses initiales ("F.L.") de Lamennais, adressées à Charles Didier, écrivain, poète et voyageur franco-suisse, amant de George Sand. A propos d'une opposition judiciaire pour dettes, voulue par Lamennais et Mme de Branho, contre le capitaine Hippolyte de Mauduit(1794-1862), auteur de l'Histoire des derniers jours de la grande armée. Lamennais recopie la lettre de menaces qu'il a envoyé à Hippolyte de Mauduit : "[.] Ne croyez pas, Monsieur, que je m'en tienne aux voies de la justice légale. Vous pourrez, après tout, vous dérober peut-être aux suites du jugement que j'obtiendrai : mais vous ne vous déroberez point à celles de la publicité de vos actes. Je les ferai connaître, j'en ai le moyen. L'armée saura qui est celui qui ose lui parler d'honneur [.] ce que je vous dis je le ferai, car il serait de mon devoir de ne pas laisser impuni un aussi monstrueux abus de confiance que celui dont vous avez rendu victime un homme qui a eu le malheur de croire à votre probité [.]". En accord avec Mme de Branho, il veut également assigner le responsable du journal la Sentinelle de l'armée. Philosophe chrétien, ultramontain, précurseur du catholicisme libéral et social. Il rompt avec l'Eglise, en 1834, en publiant Paroles d'un croyant, aussitôt condamné par Grégoire XVI.

4 p. in-4, découpées pour l'impression et remontées sur feuillets. in-4. Article publié dans L'Avenir, le 26 octobre 1830, demandant la séparation de l'Église et de l'État. Lamennais réclame le droit pour les chrétiens de France de communiquer directement avec les autorités vaticanes, sans l'intermédiaire absurde et tyrannique du gouvernement. « Point d'Église sans le Pape, et par conséquent sans une libre communication avec le pape. Gêner, contrôler ces communications nécessaires, c'est s'attribuer le droit de les interdire entièrement quand on le voudra, c'est dire à l'Église que Dieu a fondée : Tu ne vivras que sous mon bon plaisir. () Étonnante prétention, d'espionner la foi, la morale, tout ce qu'il y a de plus sacré dans les secrets de l'âme, quand on rougirait de violer ceux du commerce et de l'industrie ! Et à quel titre le gouvernement viendrait-il s'interposer entre le catholique et le chef spirituel qu'il reconnaît ? () Nous voulons être libres et nous le serons. Notre tête ne se courbera sous aucun pouvoir assez insensé, assez aveugle pour essayer de nous soumettre à ses volontés arbitraires ».

8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. With autograph address. To the lawyer and politician Isaac-Jacob Adolphe Crémieux, responding to the question whether his 1843 publication "Amschaspands et Darvands" ever was "the subject of legal proceedings" - which had not been the case: "Vous désirez savoir si l'ouvrage que j'ai publié, il y a dix ans, sous le titre Amschaspands et Darvands, a été l'objet de poursuites judiciaires. Non, jamais, et quiconque a lu ce livre sait parfaitement que le parquet, même sous Louis-Philippe, ne pouvait seulement en avoir la pensée". - The title of the book refers to Zoroastrianism: Amahraspands or Amesha Spenta are the seven great divine entities emanating from Ahura Mazda, while darvand denotes the unrighteous. - Minor stains.

8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. With autograph address panel. In French. Long and important political letter to his close friend Charles Louis Alexandre Coriolis d'Espinouse from the immediate aftermath of the July Revolution that had led to the abdication of Charles X on 2 August 1830. Lamennais anxiously awaits news about the well-being of Coriolis and other friends in Paris, reporting that in Plesder everything "went very smoothly" and that "apart from the colour of the flag, it does not look as if anything has changed". Nevertheless, the revolution was necessary and just to him, affirming that the Bourbons "deserved their defeat" and that "this defeat is without return", as freedom "is the right and the ability to defend oneself against any arbitrary or oppressive will". Lamennais expresses his hope that this principle "will prevail in the government we are about to be given", fearing that despotism will return otherwise: "Clearly, the victors are already divided among themselves. In the depths of their souls, some would like a pure and simple republic, others something similar to Bonaparte's despotism. If the latter obtain a few important concessions, war will begin the next day, and they will push each other, as they did in England, to persecution and perhaps proscription". Therefore, he calls for a strong constitutional monarchy that would reduce the "so-called king" to "a mere dummy". In Lamennais' view, the greatest danger to the constitutional monarchy to be instituted is politcal lethargy: "Then all those, whoever they may be, who have common interests, can and should, if they have any courage and wisdom, organize themselves without ulterior motives, publicly and legally to defend these interests. But to do so, they must not isolate themselves, park themselves, so to speak, and make a foolish and disastrous honor of being nothing and meddling in nothing". He closes with a religious invocation of political strength and wisdom: "The firm man who does not let himself be dominated by illusions never abandons himself. He turns his back on the past, and walks headlong into the future to take his place. God grant that this may be understood". - Lamennais probably feared for his friend Charles Louis Alexandre Coriolis d'Espinouse (1770-1841) as a current or former partisan of Charles X. After all, the marquess was the author of a eulogy for Charles's oldest son Charles-Ferdinand d'Artois, who had been assassinated by a Bonapartist in 1820, and of a panegyric for the 1824 coronation of the Charles X that was published in 1825. - Well preserved.

8vo. 1 p. and 2 lines on bifolium. With autograph address panel. Important political letter to the mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician François Arago, congratulating him on his re-election in the 1834 French legislative election, "a true victory for France", and discussing pressing political matters. Lamennais writes that he saw in Arago a trustworthy republican ally, otherwise he would not have made dangerous statements, such as describing the reign of Louis-Philippe as a tyranny and predicting the end of "despotism". In his opinion, the most important project of the opposition was electoral reform, although not politicians but "thousands of petitioners" should demand it, since "petitions have not yet been forbidden", while "it is forbidden to associate to defend one's rights". Finally, he warns Aragon not to trust the opposition members Charles Beslay and his like-named father, as their businesses are "dependent on the government". He also alleges that Beslay, who "does not enjoy a high reputation of integrity", only "escaped the Assizes" due to an illegal intervention by the Minister of Justice Jean-Charles Persil - a piece of information that Arago is instructed to treat with discretion. - François Arago (1786-1853) was on the height of his scientific career as director of the Paris Observatory and perpetual secretary of the Academy of Science when he was first elected deputy in 1831 as part of the Republican opposition to Louis-Philippe. Following the Revolution of 1848, Arago briefly held several ministerial positions in the provisionary government. During his brief term as Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, Arago achieved the abolition of slavery in the French colonies on 27 April 1848. Faced with another undemocratic ruler in 1852, Arago refused to take the required oath of allegiance to Napoleon III and offered to resign as astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes. The Emperor declined to accept Arago's resignation and made an exception for him. - With tears from breaking the seal.

8vo and 12mo. Altogether 19 pp. Collection of letters written by the forerunner of liberal and social Catholicism. - Among the addressees are the writer and founder of the "Magasin pittoresque" Edouard Charton (1807-90) and the politician Denis Benoist d'Azy (1796-1880). Lamennais recommends a young man to Edouard Charton: "La lettre incluse, mon cher Charton, est d'un jeune homme [.] qui a grand besoin d'être aidé [.]" (undated). In a letter to Denys Benoist he recommends a young officer called Muirson: "Cette lettre, mon cher ami, te sera remise par M. Muirson, l'officier anglois don't je t'ai parlé" (undated). In a letter to Mme. Maillefer he apologizes for being unable to accept an invitation; in a letter to M. Stubes he thanks for his sending him a copy of the "discours de M. Buckingham sur quelques réformes sociales". Other letters are written to colleagues and cardinals. - Lamennais was ordained a priest in 1817, the same year he published "Essai sur l'indifférence en matière de religion". In 1830, he founded "L'Ami de l'ordre" with Montalembert and Lacordaire. His social ideas embraced an enlarged suffrage, separation of church and state, universal freedom of conscience, instruction, assembly, and the press. His radicalism distanced him from a number of his friends. In 1833, he broke with the Church and published "Paroles d'un croyant" in the following year, which Pope Gregory XVI condemned for its philosophical theories. - Some of the letters brownstained.