Cioranescu, 58107.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition. Fine copy bound for Chancellor Boucherat.<\/p>\n
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Ranc\u00e9 (1626-1700), one of the precursors of the Cistercian order of the Strict Observance, was one of the most outstanding figures of the spirituality of the Great Century. His life was immortalised in Chateaubriand’s biography, La vie de Ranc\u00e9<\/i>. From his early age he was destined for an ecclesiastical career. He became a canon at the age of eleven and was ordained a priest in 1651 after brilliant studies in Paris with Bossuet, one of his fellow students. His visit to La Trappe in 1660 was a milestone in his career.<\/p>\n
Having fallen into ruin, Ranc\u00e9 set about restoring the abbey, which subsequently became an important place for spreading a new approach to Christian meditation. In the Meditations<\/i>, “the longest section contains Ranc\u00e9’s meditations on the Preface to the Rule of Benedict. This section, understandably, can be read in some respects as an apology for the austere form of religious life he proposes” (see Ellen Weaver-Laporte, in: Commentaires sur la r\u00e8gle de St. Beno\u00eet, p. 32).<\/p>\n
A very fine copy bearing the arms of Chancellor Louis Boucherat (1616-1699), Count of Compans, and a member of the Paris Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
12mo (166 x 92 mm) 13 nn.ll., 448 pp. Contemporary red morocco, gilt filet on covers, central coat of arms of Louis de Boucherat (OHR, 1262, 3), spine gitlt with raised bands, decorative endpapers, marbled and gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":80867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[530],"product_tag":[1244,1270,1267,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-80872","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-binding","7":"product_tag-17th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-armoured","9":"product_tag-binding","10":"product_tag-first-edition","11":"pa_auteur-rance-armand-jean-de-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Armand-Jean de RANC\u00c9","chapeau":"From the library of Louis de Boucherat","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Fran\u00e7ois Muguet, 1696","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n