Histoire Générale de la naissance & des progrès de la Compagnie de Jesus, et Analyse de ses Constitutions & Privilèges.

[Rouen]; Paris: s.n, 1761; 1764.

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viii. 499, [6]; [vi], 516, [4]; [vi], 447, [3]; [vi], 509, [5]; viii, [4], 311; [4], 309-688 pp. 12mo. First four volumes in decorative brown paste-paper boards and sheep backs and corners, other 2 volumes in full stained sheep with paste-paper endpapers, backs of all six volumes uniform and richly gilt. A fine set in attractive dress. Cioranesco 21317. Provenance: Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek, Schloss Eferding (ink stamp on front endpapers off all volumes); Loyola Reference Library (stamp on lower edges, call numbers in pencil on title-pages).

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Volumes I-III contain the history of the Society of Jesus from its origin until the end of the eighteenth century and the first analysis of its constitutions and privileges. Volume IV continues that analysis and has an index of the four-volume set. Barbier assigns the analysis chapters to Lois-Adrien Le Paige. Christophe Coudrette (1701-1774) was a Jansenist and the author of several anti-Jesuit works.