Description

Composite collection of 11 anti-jesuitical pieces.
Published between 1716 and 1719, they reflect the period of crisis that followed the publication of the Unigenitus bull and the creation of a party of "appellants" opposed to its approval. Since the beginning of the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans in 1715, France had tended to favour the opponents of the Bull, and the Jesuits were torn between their oath of obedience to the Pope and their allegiance to the King of France.

Includes :

- 1 - The secret intrigues of the JesuitsTranslated from Monita SecretaWhere its joined Extract from the Faculty of Theology of Paris, 1554 and The Prophecy of Saint Hildegard, who died in 1131.
Turin, by Jacques Daniel, 1718. 66 pp. + table.
This famous anti-Jesuit pamphlet is presented as a translation of an apocryphal pamphlet, the Monita privata societatis Jesu. In it, a member of the Society of Jesus instructs his brothers on how to enrich themselves and gain influence: attracting the benevolence of wealthy widows, defaming members of other orders...
The work is generally attributed to Jerome Zahorowski, a Polish Jesuit who was expelled from the order in 1611. The Monita secreta first appeared in 1614 in Krakow (at the false address of Notobirga); the Jesuits tried to buy back copies in circulation, but to no avail: 22 editions, in 7 languages, appeared during the 17th century.
This edition is enriched with 2 other apocryphal anti-Jesuit texts: a condemnation of the order by the faculty of Paris in 1554, and a prophecy by Saint Hildegard predicting the downfall of the order. Quérard X, 563; Barbier IV, 1316; Jammes, cat. Le Bûcher bibliographique, no. 360.

- 2 - Instruction to princes on the manner in which the Jesuits are governed by a disinterested religious. Translated from the Italian.
No place, publisher or date [1716]. Title, disclaimer, 41 pp.
First edition in French. The original Italian edition was published in 1617 by Pandolfo Malatesta (1617) under the title "Instruttione a Principi [...]".
"The Jesuits have always been what they are today. Ambition and the desire to dominate have always been the hallmarks of this company. [...]"

- 3 - Arrêtest de la cour de Parlement de Bretagne, rendue sur la remontrance de Monsieur le Procureur général du Roi ; qui condamne comme fausses, scandaleuses, contraires aux Libertez de l'Eglise gallicane, & pernicieuses à l'Etat, plusieurs propositions enseignées en 1716. par les Jesuites du college de Rennes
Rennes, Veuve de François Vatar, 1718. 25 pp. 2nd edition; the original appeared untitled in 1717. The propositions of Jesuit Father Andry are in Latin, without translation.

- 4 - Théophile Raynaud [John Floyd]
The censure of the symbol of the apostles - To show that anything can be condemned whenever one wants, and that the most orthodox works will not be safe from censure, if it is permitted to give strange and ridiculous meanings to the most exact and true propositions.
No place or publisher, 1717. Title, disclaimer 30 pp. Text in two columns.
Composed in 1631 by the English Jesuit John Floyd and published under the title Censura in Symbolum Apostolorumthis intentionally bad faith work, which refutes point by point the Symbol of the ApostlesIts aim was to demonstrate that anything can be condemned by playing on the meaning of words. The text was translated into French by Théophile Raynaud, and circulated again after 1713 following the promulgation of the bull Unigénitus.

- 5 - Arrests rendus par les differens parlements du Royaume contre plusieurs libellés Jésuitiques, erronez et séditieux, publié depuis a Déclaration du 7 octobre 1717 avec La fameuse pièce en vers du P. du Cerceau, brûlée par le Bourreau à Dijon et quelques Ecrits nouveaux et curieux qui ont rapport à ces matières.
No place, publisher or date. [1] f. - 76 pp.
First collective edition; this collection of judgments includes a libel in verse about the Unigenitus bull, The Unigenitus Constitution rejected for several centuries, attributed to the Jesuit Father Jean-Antoine du Cerceau and condemned to fire by the Dijon Parliament; the piece in question is reproduced and accompanied by a reply in verse.

- 6 - Arrest of the court of the Parliament of Flanders against a seditious libel entitled: preservatif contre le feu du Schisme qui commence à S'allumer à Douai, & contre quelques autres écrits, ou chansons manuscrites & imprimées.
No place [Douay], nor publisher, 1719. 4 pp.

- 7 - Sentence of the Presidial of Mâcon, which condemns a Jesuit libel, slanderous and seditious against the Bishop of Mâcon and other Appellants, entitled: Lettre d'un Ecclésiastique du Diocèse de Mâcon, employé dans un Diocèse étranger &c. to be torn up and burned by the Executor of High Justice.
No place [Mâcon], nor publisher, 1719. 4 pp.

- 8 - A curious and timely question. Whether it is safer to confess to the Jesuits, the heroes of the acceptors of the Unigenitus Bull, & to their adherents, than to the Cures, Canons, & other Secular & Regular Priests without number, who with more than thirty Catholic Bishops, & the most learned Universities, have appealed from this same Bull, to the future General Council.
No place [Mâcon], nor publisher, 1719. [1] f. - 17 pp.

- 9 - Nouvelle Pratique du confessional selon la nouvelle Doctrine enseignée par R. P. Salton, dans le collège des Jésuites de Poitiers, & dénoncé à la Faculté de Théologie de la même Ville
no place or publisher, 1718
48 pp. trimmed and folded to fit in-12° format (loss of pagination on most leaves)

- 10 - Letter from the RR. PP. Capucins to Reverend Pere Tellier, revised, corrected and enlarged.
in Monomotapa: with the widow Unigenitus, 1716
[1] f. - 24 pp.
Libel in verse directed against Michel Le Tellier, Jesuit father and confessor to Louis XIV: an enemy of Cardinal de Noailles, who was one of the "appellants", Le Tellier was suspected of having encouraged the promulgation of the Bull. Despite the words "revue, corrigée, augmentée", there does not appear to be an earlier edition.

- 11 - Little Father André back from the other world
Without place or publisher, 1716
24 pp. Curious anti-Jansenist piece: a "marquis petit-maistre", in a missive to a young lady, relates that he has been haunted by the spectre of the priest André Boullanger, renowned for the burlesque character of his preaching. "I saw the Father fall backwards, take the most rapid & terrible tumble; & already he had disappeared. Imagine the state he left me in, and how confused and frightened I was. What a lesson against Jansenism! If I ever dabble in it, I'll have both my ears cut off!."

In fine are bound 5 pp. of table handwritten in brown ink. Several items listed in the table and crossed out have been deleted. The absence of the Collection of documents relating to the history of the Society of Jesus father Jouvency announced at the table.