MANUSCRIBE] - Memoir on the life of Monseigneur le Dauphin. - Lot 35

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MANUSCRIBE] - Memoir on the life of Monseigneur le Dauphin. - Lot 35
MANUSCRIBE] - Memoir on the life of Monseigneur le Dauphin. S.l., n.d., (ca. 1770), in-folio, 77 ff. figures, [3] ff. n. ch. (Notes to be added in the margin), on ruled paper, all covered with medium handwriting, very legible (about 20/25 lines per page), with some ornaments (friezes, letters) stenciled, waiting cardboard of marbled pink paper, smooth spine, bottle title piece (binding of the period). Small lacks of cardboard on the spine and corners, but good copy. Very interesting unpublished manuscript on the figure of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729-1765), who was the father of Louis XVI, and the only survivor of the sons of Louis XV. Written probably before the death of Louis XV, it appears unpublished, and in any case corresponds neither to the well-known text of Abbot Proyart (Vie du Dauphin, père de Louis XVI) originally published at the address of Paris in 1777, nor to the less known manuscript of Abbot Jacques-Antoine Soldini, confessor of the Dauphine Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, preserved at the BnF (Ms. Soldini, BnF), nor to the manuscript of the Dauphine Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, preserved at the BnF (Ms. Soldini, BnF). fr. 13784: Essay on the life of Monsignor Louis Dauphin, who died at Fontainebleau on 20th December 1765), and which was published in an extremely rare partial edition in 1936 by Lethielleux (Le Dauphin Louis VIII père de Louis XVI. His life. II. His education). The text we have before our eyes presents, moreover, a very different spirit from that of the two aforementioned works: during his lifetime, the Dauphin, of strong piety, was the hope of the anti-philosophical party and of all the partisans of the Jesuits and of the Constitution Unigenitus. His reign was awaited with some impatience: the party expected a notable correction both of the "scandals" offered by his father's private life, and of the liberal and in any case anti-Jesuit policy which led to the suppression of the Company in France (in 1764, a measure which Louis had formal
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