[Diary of Trevoux] Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences et - Lot 332

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[Diary of Trevoux] Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences et - Lot 332
[Diary of Trevoux] Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences et des beaux-arts, collected by the order of His Serene Highness Monseigneur Prince Souverain de Dombes. April 1711. In Trévoux and sold in Paris, from the printing house of H.S.H. and at Etienne Ganeau's, 1711. In-12 red Jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt title and date, gilt roulette on cups and hunting, gilt tr. (contemporary binding). These memoirs, better known as the Journal de Trévoux or Mémoires de Trévoux, are a collection of literary, then scientific, historical, geographical, ethnological and religious criticism, initiated in January 1701 in Trévoux in the then independent principality of Dombes. Prince Louis-Auguste de Bourbon (eldest son of one of the legitimated sons of Louis XIV, the Duke of Maine), had transferred his parliament to Trévoux in 1696 and established a large printing house there. On the advice of the Jesuit fathers Michel Le Tellier and Jacques-Philippe Lallemant, he had a literary journal printed in his town, which was to provide "extracts from all the books of science printed in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the northern kingdoms, Holland, England, etc., so that nothing printed in Europe would be forgotten. "The direction and composition of the new newspaper was entrusted to the Jesuits, who began its publication in 1701 and were thus able to counter the dynamism of the Protestant presses printed in the United Provinces, in favour of the defence of the Catholic religion against its enemies of the time: on the one hand the Protestants and then the parliamentary Jansenists of the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques, and on the other the militant materialism of authors gathered around the Encyclopaedia such as Baron d'Holbach.
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