Lot n° 6
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EUR
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: 278EUR
WARS OF RELIGION. - DOLEANCE faicte au roy... - Lot 6 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés
WARS OF RELIGION. - DOLEANCE faicte au roy sur l'impunité des meurtres & oppressions qui se commettent quotidiennement en ce royaulme, au prejudice de ses edictz. S.l.n.n., 1564 [i.e. 1589]. small in-8, 14-(2 of which the last one is blank) pp. half-garneted chagrin with corners, smooth spine with gilt title throughout; the first 4 leaves trimmed short, the last 2 showing marginal losses with damage to a few words not hindering reading (modern binding).
VIOLENT LIBEL AGAINST HENRI III, PUBLISHED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HIS ASSASSINATION. the author attacks the royal advisors, deplores the "benignity" of the princes of the blood towards them, and congratulates the Parisians financing the war against the king. He then recalls that the Sorbonne, on January 7, 1589, published an opinion according to which "it is quite permissible to withdraw from the obedience of his king, until contributing to the expenses which it is appropriate to make, to start a war against him, when he has broken the oath which he made at his coronation" (p. 10). The author then denies that this provision is for the benefit of the family of Guise, but denounces the assassinations of the duke Henri de Guise and his brother the cardinal Louis de Guise, perpetrated on December 23 and 24, 1588, "great offense against the divine majesty" (p. 11). Finally, he accuses Henri III of being the cause of the disorders, affirming that if he had not followed such a disastrous policy, "his subjetcs would not have taken the audacity & the boldness to kill each other & to massacre as they make every day".
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