MYSTICS. - Set of 4 manuscript pieces. - BREMOND... Lot 31

MYSTICS. - Set of 4 manuscript pieces. - BREMOND (Abbé). La philosophie de Saint-François de Sales. Manuscript a. s., 20 pages in-4, (1922). 1st page very stained and soiled. Text completed, with few erasures. - LACORDAIRE. LAS, addressed to his friend Victor Ladey, dated Dijon August 20, 1825, 5 pages in-4. He proposes to his correspondent a plan of study of Christian varieties to begin his conversion. "Religion makes youth lovable (...) The soul moves ceaselessly from the instant of its life to the instant of its death, and finds itself pressed between these two great mysteries. (...) I am as I should be, all my faculties are in harmony". He invites his friend to study Christianity: "How your existence would be changed and enlarged if you became a Christian! Small tears with missing parts. - LACORDAIRE. LAS, 3 pages in-12, dated November 12, 1831 on letterhead of the political journal "L'Avenir", addressed to "Monsieur l'Abbé". "Governments today are lawless and opinionless (...) I am well aware that it is to your commune that you give, but today communes are the government (...). We are at the mercy of a few men who call themselves ministers, and an entire nation depends on five or six bankers or lawyers who make a mockery of all the rights of nature and religion." Restoration. - LACORDAIRE. LAS, addressed to Monsieur Delahaye, dated September 24, 1826, La Roche-Guyon. He tells him of the conversion of an American named Wasingthon, "so he made his abjuration in the chapel of the château [of La Roche-Guyon at the home of the Duc de Rohan]. (...) When I saw a tall, well-built young man come forward with a noble air, (...) tears came to my eyes". Expert: Ségolène Beauchamp