Jacques Benigne Bossuet - L'apocalypse avec une explication - 1691

In 8°. Full leather binding, scraped but sturdy. Ornate and gilded spine, speckled edges.
Ex-libris of Joannis Riché.
Mark on the title. The paper is in very good condition.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) was a French churchman, bishop, preacher, and writer.
A renowned preacher early on, he delivered sermons and funeral orations that remain famous. He is the author of an extensive body of written work covering spirituality, the instruction of the dauphin, anti-Protestant controversy, and various polemics, including one against Fénelon regarding quietism.
At the beginning of the 1660s, Bossuet regularly preached before King Louis XIV's court at Versailles. He was appointed tutor to the Dauphin in 1670 and elected to the Académie française a year later in 1671. In 1681, he was appointed Bishop of Meaux, a position he held until his death.
Bossuet was a fervent supporter of political absolutism and the divine right of kings. Later in his life, he was also involved in controversies over Gallicanism and Quietism, and supported the king's revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which abolished the rights of the Protestant Huguenot minority.

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