[GIRARD (Jean-Baptiste)]. - Lot 65

[GIRARD (Jean-Baptiste)]. Recueil general des pièces contenues au procez du Pere Jean-Baptiste Girard, Jesuite, Recteur du Seminaire Royal de la Marine de Toulon, & de Demoiselle Catherine Cadiere, Querellante. Aix, Chez Joseph David, 1731. 5 volumes in 6 volumes in-12, calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Six folded plates engraved by LARMESSIN, two of which are free, and a large folded table, all in the sixth volume. Volume V, in two volumes, contains three pieces not announced in the table: - Histoire du procez entre Demoiselle Cadiere, & Pere Cadiere Jacobin, Mre Cadiere Prêtre, Père Nicolas, Prieur des Carmes Déchaussés de Toulon, d'une part ; & le P. Girard Jesuite, Recteur du Seminaire Royal de Toulon, de l'autre" (36 pp.), -- "Resultat des memoires de la Demoiselle Cadiere et Adherans, contre le P. Girard Jesuite" (160 pp.), & --- [BEL]. Le Nouveau Tarquin, comedie en trois actes" (48 pp.). Jean-Baptiste Girard (born and died in Dole in 1733) was at the center of a scandalous affair of morals that turned out to be a struggle for influence between Jesuits and Jansenists. Voltaire evoked it in La Pucelle d'Orléans in 1752, and Jean Jacques Bel, inspired by it, anonymously published Le Nouveau Tarquin in 1732. Comedie allegorique, en trois actes (Amsterdam, Chez Jacques Desbordes, 1732). André BRETON'S EXEMPLAIRE of the trial of the Franc-Comtois Jean Girard with the FREE BOARDS Some minor damage to binding. From the library of André Breton "Le Tamanoir", with bookplate designed by Salvador Dali. Caillet I, 1886; Cohen, 863 (for the folio edition); Gay III, 985.