Tan calf binding with black title plate, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Decorative edging on the front board. all edges gilt.

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Preached at the Tuileries in 1718 before the child king Louis XV, the Petit careme has remained the most famous of Massillon’s sermon collections. These speeches testify to the success of the sermon as a form of religious eloquence and as a literary genre.