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FLECHIER (E.): MEMOIRES DE FLECHIER SUR LES GRANDS-JOURS TENUS A CLERMONT EN 1665-1666,

AUVERGNE-FLECHIER (E.).Memoires de Flechier sur les Grands-Jours tenus a Clermont en 1665-1666.Publies par B. Gonod, Bibliothecaire de la ville de Clermont-Ferrand. On a relie a la suite: Reponse a l'examen critique des Memoires de Flechier, par le Comte de Resie, par B. Gonod.P., 1844, in-8°, rel. demi-bas., dos orne. Bien complet des deux planches gravees, dont une planche depliante de musique notee. Edition originale rare, du fait de la condamnation de l'ouvrage consecutive aux poursuites engagees par les familles mises en cause.

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A. FABRE: Flechier orateur. 1672-1690. Etude critique. Paris 1886
Precieuse etude sur l'art oratoire chez Flechier. Caracteres generaux des oraisons de Flechier, ses imitations, ses plagiats, ses redites, son gout.- Opinions des contemporains et des critiques du XVIIIe siecle sur les oraisons de Flechier.- Les opinions de Flechier en politique, sa peinture des moeurs du temps; l'influence et les rapports de Flechier avec Massillon, Thomas et Balzac. Cabeen III/3547.

1vol. in-8, XVI-608pp, br., dos casse.

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FLECHIER. Memoires de Flechier sur les Grands Jours tenus a Clermont en 1665-1666, publies par B. GONOD. Paris, Porquet, 1844.

In-8 demi-maroquin brun a coins, XXXV-461 pages, 2 planches gravees dont une seance des Grands Jours d'apres une estampe de 1665 et une planche a double page de musique notee du Noel des Grands Jours. (Dos legerement passe, rousseurs eparses aux planches.) Edition originale de cet ouvrage celebre. Rare car elle fut en grande partie detruite sur les instances des familles mises en cause. Exemplaire enrichit de deux planches supplementaires : un portrait-frontispice de FLECHIER dessine par GIRARDET et un portrait de Denys TALON par Ambroise TARDIEU. BRUNET, II, 1284. VICAIRE, III, 739-740. BON EXEMPLAIRE. 300

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Flechier, Valentin Esprit. Oeuvres completes de Flechier, avec une notice ou discours preliminaire sur la vie et les ouvrages de ce celebre orateur, par A.-V. Fabre de Narbonne, professeur a l'institution Sainte-Barbe.

Paris, Boiste Fils Aine, Berquet, Dufour et Cie, 1825-1828. Complete in 10 volumes: I: (1828 oraisons funebres) iv, 272 pp.; II: (1825 sermons) 477 pp.; III: (1826 Sermons, exhortations et discours) 564 pp.; IV: (1827 Sermons et panegyriques) xix, 30 - 496 pp.; V: (1827 panegyriques, mandemens, lettres pastorales, Reflexions, considerations et pensees diverses) 555 pp.; VI: (1827 Histoire de Theodose le Grand) 410 pp. with subject-index); VII: (1827 Vie du Cardinal Ximenes) 564 pp. with subject-index; VIII: (1827 Vie du Cardinal Commendon) 516 pp with subject-index; IX (1828 Poesies Latines et Francoises, pieces diverses) 512 pp.; X: (1828 Lettres et pieces diverses). 496 pp.) Contemporary uniform decorative blue half morocco with gilt title and decoration on spine. 8vo 14x22 cm. With engraved portrait frontispiece in volume I; uncut and partly unopened. Nice complete set of an uncommon early edtion of the collected works by Valentin Esprit Flechier (1632 - 1710). Flechier was a French catholic priest and preacher, bishop of Lavaur and Nimes, and considered one of the greatest orators of the 17th century. He entered the Congregation des Doctrinaires. but left it after some time owing to the strictness of its rules. He went to Paris, where he devoted himself to writing poetry. His French poems met with little success, but a description in Latin verse of a tournament (carrousel, circus regius - in our set volume 9, pp. 116-150), given by Louis XIV around 1662, brought him a great reputation. In 1668 the duke of Montausier procured for Flechier the post of lecteur to the dauphin. His sermons increased his reputation, which was afterwards raised to the highest pitch by his funeral orations. The most important are those on Madame de Montausier (1672 volume I, pp. 3-41), which gained him the membership of the Academy, the duchesse d'Aiguillon (1675 Volume I, pp. 45-73), and, above all, Marshal Turenne (1676 Volume I, pp. 77-114). He was now firmly established in the favour of the king. Pulpit eloquence is the branch of belles-lettres in which Flechier excelled, always ingenious, often witty, and nobody has carried farther than he the harmony of diction, sometimes marred by an affectation of symmetry and an excessive use of antithesis. His two historical works, the histories of Theodosius I (volume 6 of our set) and of Ximenes (volume 7 of our set), are more remarkable for elegance of style than for accuracy and comprehensive insight. Flechier's memoires though offer a salient insight into provincial life in France in the 18th century. Our set of the collected works was preceded by the somewhat more extensive one Gabriel Marin Ducreux provided in 1782. But interestingly, volume 10 of our set contains letters by Flechier and also at end a "memoire historique sur les grands jours" (pp. 412-421) by the editor. He states that this introduction is intended for a good understanding of the text that follows: "Extrait de la relation des grands jours d'Auvergne, tenus en 1665." (pp. 422-482). This last work is a summary of Flechiers well known remarkable and curious notes on his stay in Clermont during the days of the extrordinary court of justice. The editor of the set remains silent on the source of this last work as the "Memoires de Flechier sur les grands jours tenus a Clermont en 1665-1666" were only published after our set was compiled in 1844 by Benoit Gonod who discovered the manuscript in the archives of Clermont Ferrand. Small library stamp on first flyleaves; capitals, corners and edges bit worn; moderately foxed, though more serious in volumes 2,3,4 and 5, else nice, solid and clean; Graesse, II, p. 594; Cf. Hoefer XVII, 884.; ISBN

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