[PROTESTANTISM]. - Lot 87

[PROTESTANTISM]. Lettres à Mr. le Curé au sujet de son dialogue avec son évêque sur le mariage des protestans [Letters to Mr. the Curé concerning his dialogue with his bishop on Protestant marriage]. In French, manuscript on paper France, dated 1777 445 pp. + following "cayer de notes", 30 ff. in cursive script. Bound in marbled brown calf, smooth spine cloisonné and fleuronné, gilt fillet on the edges, red edges, marbled paper endpapers (dull corners, imperfections to the leather). Dimensions: 210 x 125 mm. Set of letters with questions and answers concerning Protestants and their right to religious marriage. The author is clearly in favor of forced conversion of Protestants. The work is a critique of Abbé Louis Guidi ou Guidy (1710-1780), Dialogue entre un évêque et un curé sur les mariages protestans, Paris, 1775. Guidi had sided in favor of Protestants in the debate over their marriages.