Marmontel. - Bélisaire. Paris, Merlin, 1767.... - Lot 189 - Crait + Müller

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Marmontel. - Bélisaire. Paris, Merlin, 1767.... - Lot 189 - Crait + Müller
Marmontel. - Bélisaire. Paris, Merlin, 1767. In-12 bound in full contemporary calf with boards decorated with a gilt fillet, smooth spine highly ornamented, title page, gilt edges - [2 ff.], X pp, [1 f., addition to the note on page 237], 340 pp, [2 ff]. Complete with frontispiece and 3 engravings h-t by Gravelot, in a fine edition. First edition. Published in 02/1767, the work is condemned from the month of 12/1767 by the Sorbonne then censured by the archbishop of Paris in 01/1768, because of chapter XV which defends the religious tolerance. Victim of the arbitrariness and obscurantism of the "dogma of civil intolerance", advocated by the censors, Marmontel calls Voltaire to the rescue. The affair, which lasted a year, only contributed to the success of the work. To read again with profit. (Ref BP v0480/24)
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