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Factum Pour Les Religieuses de S. Catherine Les- Provins, contre les Peres Cordeliers

12mo. pp. 210, (4), [2 blank]. Bound in contemporary calf, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering. Title ornament, initial and tail-piece. Gilt arms to covers (Daillon du Lude). Paper flaw at foot of B5, 3 pages of ink notes tipped at end. Scarce first edition (another edition in quarto was published at the same time) of this sensational work regarding a long-running dispute at the Franciscan convent of Mont-Sainte-Catherine-lès-Provins, a thirteenth-century foundation located just southeast of Paris. Trouble at the convent began in 1663 over the election of the abbess, with some of the nuns trying to initiate a lawsuit at the Parliament of Paris. When the high court referred the case to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the archbishop of Sens (Louis-Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin) matters deteriorated: as the convent became the front line in a battle between the Franciscans and the Jansenist archbishop, the nuns chose sides, and matters degenerated into violence. “The legal drama reached its climax in 1666-67 with the decision of one faction of Sainte-Catherine's nuns to fight against their abbess and supporters of the Franciscans. Uncertain of their ability to

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