MANUSCRIBER - Memoir on the life of Monsignor... Lot 41

[MANUSCRIBER] - Memoir on the life of Monsignor Le Dauphin. S.l., s.d., (c. 1770), in-folio, 77 ff. figures, [3] ff. n. ch. (Notes to be added in the margin), on ruled paper, the whole on the following pages Covered in medium handwriting, very legible (about 20/25 lines per page), with some ornaments (friezes, lettering) stencilled, pink marbled paper waiting cardboard, smooth spine, bottle title piece (binding of at the time). Small lacks of cardboard on the back 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 Very interesting unpublished manuscript on the figure of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729-1765), who was the father of Louis XVI, and the only survivor.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 Written probably before the death of Louis XV, it appears unpublished, and in any case does not correspond to the well-known text of Abbé Proyart. (Life of the Dauphin, father of Louis XVI) originally published at the Paris address in 1777, nor to the less known manuscript of Abbot Jacques-Antoine Soldini confessor of the Dauphine Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, preserved at the BnF (Ms. fr. 13784: Essay on the life of Monsignor Louis Dauphin, who died in Fontainebleau on the 20th... December 1765), and which was published in an extremely rare partial edition in 1936 by Lethielleux (Le Dauphin Louis VIII father of Louis XVI. His life. II. His education). Moreover, the text before us presents 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 supporters of the Jesuits and the Constitution Unigenitus. His reign was awaited with some impatience: the party expected a notable correction both of the "scandals" offered by life of the liberal and in any case anti-Jesuitical policy which led to the suppression of the Company in France (in 1764, a measure that Louis had formally disapproved of). Hence the deplo