Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle, à Monseigneur le Dauphin ; Pour expliquer la suite de la Religion et les changements des Empires. 2-vol. set Complete

by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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Lyon: Tournachon-Molin, 1805. Hardcover. 12mo. 4 , 404, 4 , 371, 1 pp. Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with title label laid on spines. Bossuet's Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle is a stunning work detailing the fall of many empires. But then the Discours was composed under a single preoccupation. To Bossuet the establishment of Christianity was the one point of real importance in the whole history of the world. He totally ignores

• Binding: Hardcover

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