Lasting eminence
Vie de Jésus.
Paris: Michel Lévy Freres, 1863.
Price: $500.00
About the item
First edition. [4], lix, [1], 462, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Lasting eminence. Contemporary quarter purple morocco and boards. Very good. PMM 352; En français dans le texte 285.
Item #218018
Renan's Romantic conception of the historical Christ as a sort of gentle, pastoral Jewish philosopher aroused a storm of controversy, and was "... an immediate and resounding success both at home and abroad . In six months sixty thousand copies of the French edition had been sold and edition succeeded edition ... Immediate success was partly a succès de scandale but this would not have kept the book alive. It is Renan's approach to the subject and his beautiful prose that gave it lasting eminence." - Printing and the Mind of Man.
