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*DU LAURENS (Henri-Joseph Abbé)]. Etrennes aux gens d'Eglise ou La Chandelle d'Arras ; poeme heroi-comique, en XVIII chants. Arras, aux dépens des moines, 1775. In-12, xvi-152 pp. Half blond morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, date on tail (19th c. binding). Traces of green paint on lower margin of page iii, else a good copy. "A licentious, anti-religious poem [...] Abbé Dulaurens was born in Douai in 1719. After unsuccessfully applying for transfer to the Order of Cluny, he left the monastic life to devote himself to literature, and came to Paris for this purpose. Soon pursued for publishing free and irreligious writings, he was forced to flee to Amsterdam, Liège and Frankfurt. He was unable to make enough money from his pen, and persecution followed him everywhere. In 1767, the Ecclesiastical Chamber of Mainz condemned him to perpetual imprisonment; he was confined to the convent of Mariabom, where he ended his days in 1797. He had wit, imagination and prodigious facility. He composed Le Balai, a poem of no less than 6,000 lines, in 22 days. La Chandelle d'Arras, which contains as many lines, was begun on September 2, 1765, and went to press on the 17th of the same month. These poems are not as good as Voltaire's Pucelle, but they are not devoid of satirical verve and original thoughts, often happily expressed. We recall that his novel Le Compère Mathieu was even attributed to Voltaire." (Barbier II, 308; Gay I, 533.)

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*DU LAURENS (Henri-Joseph Abbé)]. Etrennes aux gens d'Eglise ou La Chandelle d'Arras ; poeme heroi-comique, en XVIII chants. Arras, aux dépens des moines, 1775. In-12, xvi-152 pp. Half blond morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, date on tail (19th c. binding). Traces of green paint on lower margin of page iii, else a good copy. "A licentious, anti-religious poem [...] Abbé Dulaurens was born in Douai in 1719. After unsuccessfully applying for transfer to the Order of Cluny, he left the monastic life to devote himself to literature, and came to Paris for this purpose. Soon pursued for publishing free and irreligious writings, he was forced to flee to Amsterdam, Liège and Frankfurt. He was unable to make enough money from his pen, and persecution followed him everywhere. In 1767, the Ecclesiastical Chamber of Mainz condemned him to perpetual imprisonment; he was confined to the convent of Mariabom, where he ended his days in 1797. He had wit, imagination and prodigious facility. He composed Le Balai, a poem of no less than 6,000 lines, in 22 days. La Chandelle d'Arras, which contains as many lines, was begun on September 2, 1765, and went to press on the 17th of the same month. These poems are not as good as Voltaire's Pucelle, but they are not devoid of satirical verve and original thoughts, often happily expressed. We recall that his novel Le Compère Mathieu was even attributed to Voltaire." (Barbier II, 308; Gay I, 533.)

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