LENAIN DE TILLEMONT, Louis Sébastien - Histoire des Empereur - Lot 326

LENAIN DE TILLEMONT, Louis Sébastien - Histoire des Empereurs et des autres Princes qui ont régné durant les six premiers siècles de l'Eglise, de leurs guerres contre les Juifs, des écrivains profanes et des personnes les plus illustres de leur temps. Paris, Charles Robustel, Rollin fils (t. VI), 1690-1691(t. II & III)-1697-1701-1738. 6 vol. in-4, contemporary gran. brown calf or marble, spine ribbed and decorated. First edition. The last two posthumous volumes were published by his biographer Michel Tronchay. This work was intended as a counterpart to the famous Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire ecclésiastique des six premiers siècles (1693-1712). It takes the form of monographs on the emperors, which have retained real historical value. The author, an ardent Jansenist, was recognized for his objectivity in the biography of pagans who were sometimes enemies of Christianity.