Instruction Pastorale de Monseigneur l'Archeveque de Paris, Sur les Attientes donnees a l'Autorite de l'Eglise, par les Jugements des Tribunaux Seculiers, dans l'Affaire des Jesuites de [de Beaumont, Christophe] - 1763

[Paris]: [n.p.], 1763. First edition. Cardboard Covers. Very Good. 6 x 8 5/8 inches. 230 pages. Jesuit library stamps and label inside front cover and on verso of title page. Small light marginal dampstain towards the end. Scattered light foxing. Fore edge and bottom uncut. A very nice wide margined copy. Also contains the Adhesion de Monseigneur l'Eveque d'Amiens, a l'Instruction Pastorale de Monseigneur l'Archeveque de Paris, by Louis Francois Gabriel, the Bishop of Amiens. 16 pages, including final blank, which is often lacking. Bound in contemporary marbled light card stock, with paper spine bearing title in neat ink manuscript. Covers rubbed with old repairs and remnant of library label to front cover. The first and only edition of this rare defense of the Jesuits against the attacks and suppression by the French secular authorities. The book was ordered to be burned by the public executioner, and some of its arguments earned a now famous response by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.