GRAND DAUPHIN (Louis de Bourbon, says it). Autograph manusc - Lot 6

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GRAND DAUPHIN (Louis de Bourbon, says it). Autograph manusc - Lot 6
GRAND DAUPHIN (Louis de Bourbon, says it). Autograph manuscript. 1 p. 1/3, two marginal spots, slightly insulated paper. HOMEWORK WRITTEN UNDER THE HUNCHBACK FERRULE. The future bishop of Meaux, known until then for his famous sermons and funeral orations, was appointed preceptor of the Grand Dauphin in 1670 and fulfilled his duties until 1678 with remarkable zeal : Considering his task as a kind of national priesthood, he conceived a vast pedagogical plan which he set out in 1679 in his Letter to Pope Innocent XI, held three classes a day for his pupil, wrote for him theological, moral, political and philosophical treatises (including the famous Discourse on Universal History), French and Latin grammars... The royal disciple nevertheless showed a real aversion to intellectual work, and Saint-Simon would go so far as to write exaggeratedly of the Grand Dauphin that he was "drowned in fatness and apathy. LATIN VERSION OF A PASSAGE FROM THE TREATY OF THE DUTIES OF CICERON, excerpt from the first book: "But there are some sects which, in the opinion that they propose concerning things that bring happiness and misfortune, overturn all their duty : For he who establishes the sovereign good to have nothing in common with virtue and measures it according to his interests and not according to honesty, if he consents to the same and is not defeated by the goodness of nature, he will not be able to cultivate friendship, justice or liberality. He who judges pain as a great evil cannot be courageous, and he who establishes pleasure as a great good cannot be temperate. These things may be so well known that the matter needs no speech, but we have spoken of them elsewhere. "For the record, here is the Latin text of Cicero which Bossuet submitted to his pupil for translation: "Sed sunt non nullæ disciplinæ, quæ propositis bonorum et malorum finibus officium omne pervertant. Nam qui summum bonum sic instituit, ut nihil habeat cum virtute conjunctum, idque suis commodis, non h
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