THEATRE DE L'ELOQUENCE FRANÇOISE - ou recueil choisy de Hara - Lot 194

THEATRE DE L'ELOQUENCE FRANÇOISE - ou recueil choisy de Harangues, Remontrances, Panégyriques, Oraisons Funèbres, Plaidoyers ; Et autres Actions Publiques les plus curieuses de ce Temps. Chalon sur Saône, Pierre Cusset, 1656. In-4, (10) ff. 246 pp. (Harangues); 136 pp. (Remontrances); 80 pp. (Panégyriques); 172 pp. (Oraisons funèbres): 76 pp. (Arrêts), numerous stains and angular mottling, contemporary granulated brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, headbands worn. Dedicated to Jacques de Nuchèzes, bishop of Chalon. Harangues by Omer Talon, Cardinal de Retz, Prince de Conti, Jacques de Nuchèzes. Remontrance by Guez de Balzac to the Queen Regent (Anne of Austria) curiously dated 1637, although this text is known as a speech delivered on November 7, 1643 - by Pierre de Fenouillet, bishop of Montpellier, against duels - by Nicolas Grillet, bishop of Uzès, against blasphemers and libertines - by Cardinal de Retz (July 30, 1646). Panegyric of Saint-Louis by Cardinal de Retz, Jean de Silhon on the latest troubles in France. Discours funèbre à la mémoire du cardinal de Richelieu by Pierre-Antoine Mascaron, etc.