Description: I. Accord des Vrais Principes de l'Église, de la Morale, et de la Raison, sur la Constitution Civile du Clergé de France. Par les évêques députés à l'assemblée nationale constituante. A Paris, chez Desenne, Imprimeur-Librairie, au Palais Royal, et se trouve. Chez Pichard le jeune, Librairie, rue Dauphine, Leclere, rue Saint-Martin, 1791, 238 pp. II. Lettre des Évéques Constitutionnels, Membres de l'Assemblée Constituante, au Pape. En lui envoyant l'ouvrage fait pour La Défense de la constitution civile du clergé. J.B.J. Gobel, Charrier, & L. Expilly. De l'Imprimerie de Desenne, rue Royale, 1791, 16 pp. Two tracts bound in one volume - original French leather binding with gilt flower detailing on spine, 7.75 x 4.75", 8vo. In fair condition. Leather boards are scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine rubbed & leather chipped. Rear hinge split at tail - binding exposed. Both boards are beginning to bend away from binding (most lightly due to leather shrinkage, but can be repaired with a book-press). Marble decorated front end-page almost detached from binding, fragile. Both front and rear gutters split - cording exposed. Light tea stain found near gutter on verso-side of front fly-leaf, half-title, and title page. No known previous ownership. Some instances of light marginalia. Light toning and foxing throughout text-block. Original binding intact. Please see photos. During the French Revolution, a constitutional bishop was a Catholic bishop elected from among the clergy who had sworn to uphold the Civil Constitution of the Clergy between 1791 and 1801. Constitutional bishops were often priests with less of more moderate Gallican and partisan ideas, of a less or moderate nature. They were elected locally by the same body of electors that elected the députés of the future Legislative Assembly. This scarce work includes a letter to the Pope by the clergy, one of which is the notable Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel (1727-1794). On November 8, 1792, Gobel was appointed administrator of Paris. His public display of anti-clericalism was most likely a careful tactic to ensure the sympathy of politicians: among other things, he declared himself opposed to clerical celibacy. Gobel was imprisoned and found guilty of the so-called Luxembourg prison plot. All of the alleged conspirators were sentenced to death and guillotined that same afternoon. Incredibly scarce tracts on the Civil Constitutional of the Clergy. RAREF1791FSUQ01/24 - HK1069
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