FORMOND (Denys de) - La tarantule du Guenon de Genève, ci-de - Lot 339

FORMOND (Denys de) - La tarantule du Guenon de Genève, ci-devant nommé Léandre, et à présent Constance Guénard hérétique, apostat, dévoyé de la vraie foye, & de la saincte Église romaine. Saint-Mihiel, Par François du Bois, s.d.; in-8, XXIV-296 pp. bound in full contemporary vellum, smooth spine, edges speckled. A very rare single edition of this work of Catholic controversy, with its violent and insulting tone so typical of Franciscan polemicists. Published under the name of Denis de Formont, by Père Bardey, known as Gratien de Montfort, to denounce Father Léandre, a Capuchin who had retired to Geneva and converted to Protestantism, to the Parliament of Dole. Fr. Bardey was born in Montfort around 1580; died in Salins, November 21, 1640) - directed against Constance Guénard (Dole 1584 - circa 1625), a Capuchin monk from the Comtois region (in religion, Father Léandre de Dole) - successful preacher, then Cordelier monk, who converted to Protestantism in Montbéliard, then went to Geneva, where in 1618 he published his "Déclaration des causes de la conversion de Constance Guénard", a work burned by order of the Parlement of Dole. Chartener 1199, Perrod 937. Consultant: Mr. Philippe HENRY