53 - FLÉCHIER (Esprit). Eulogy for the Most High and Most Powerful Prince Henri de La Tour-d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Marshal, General of the King’s Camps and Armies [...] Delivered in Paris at the Church of Saint-Eustache on January 10, 1676. Paris, Mabre-Cramoisy, 1676. Quarto, [1] title leaf, 55–[1] pp., paperback, later marbled cover.

FLÉCHIER (Esprit). Eulogy for the Most High and Most Powerful Prince Henri de La Tour-d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Marshal, General of the King’s Camps and Armies [...] Delivered in Paris at the Church of Saint-Eustache on January 10, 1676. Paris, Mabre-Cramoisy, 1676. Quarto, [1] title leaf, 55–[1] pp., paperback, later marbled cover. First edition of one of the most famous funeral orations of the 17th century, a masterpiece of sacred eloquence by Fléchier (1632–1710), which earned him comparisons to Bossuet. Delivered a few months after the death of Marshal de Turenne, who was killed in battle on July 27, 1675, this oration celebrates the military and Christian virtues of Louis XIV’s great commander. The edition is adorned with a vignette featuring Turenne’s coat of arms on the title page, a header, an initial letter, and a large end-piece, all engraved in intaglio. (Tchemerzine, III, 253; Cioranescu, no. 30308.)