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‎Evenemens Mémorables. Declaration du Roi. Arret du Parlement contre les Schisme. Les Sacremens Administrés. ( album with engravings).‎

‎" S.l. ( Paris ), Au Legislateur Pacifique ( N.Godonnesche ), 1755. in-4° (26,5 cm), album with 25 engravings ( frontispiece included). Bound in contemporary half roan, boards covered with marbled paper. A few plates with a marginal faint waterstain, printed on heavy paper. Still a good copy. The album consists of an engraved frontispiece ; (1 title) , pl. 2, (3), 4, 5, 6, (7), (8), 9, 10, (11), 12, (13), (14),(15), 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, (unnumbered - added plate), (22), (unnumbered - added double page plate), 16 (sic-second plate with nr. 16). This last plate contains the table of the first 17 plates. All these 17 plates deal with the ''Querelle Parlementaire'' which was one of the most important political conflicts during the reign of Louis XV. The parlement of Paris , under Jansenist influence, opposed the Roman Catholic Church. The engraver Godonnesche, once official draughtsman of the king's Royal Coin-and Medal Collection, lost his position probably because he exceded the royal publication rules for his own work. He sided with the Parliament and made apparently good money in designing and printing these 17 plates which were in a way the continuation on paper of the art of the commemorative medal. The remaining plates (not mentioned in the table-plate which counts only 17 plates) are of a vehement anti-jesuit nature. They preclude the suppression of the Jesuit order in France (1764). This collection of medal engravings played an important role in influencing public opinion in these two important political struggles. (See at length : Christine Vogel : '' Medienereignisse in 18. und 19. Jahrhundert'' Tagung aus Anlass des 65. Geburtstag von Rolf Reichardt. Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2009). A collection of these plates is very rare, only 4 entries in OCLC ."‎