La Mennais; La dispute De L'essai Sur Lndifférence
1925 · Paris
by Marechal, Christian
Paris: Edouard Champion, 1925. D'après des documents nouveaux et inédits. x, 455p., half-cloth with marbled boards, ex libris. Nice study of this controversial French thinker of the early 19th century. La Mennais (1782-1854) wrote the Essai in 1818, which argued against individual free thought and for the dependence of the individual upon community authority, a notion appealing to French Ultramontists, royalists, and supporters of the Papacy. (Inventory #: 018120)