Jean Desmarets, later Sieur de Saint-Sorlin, was a late Renaissance `universal man': first Chancellor and founder-member of the Academie-francaise, last jester of the French royal court and star performer in ballets, novelist, playwright, poet, architect, inventor, and mystic. He was also the first man to publicize the notion of `a century of Louis XIV'. Hugh Gaston Hall's book examines that notion by looking afresh at Desmarets' vigorous career and relating the `century of Louis XIV' to its origins in the reign of Louis XIII. It questions historical misconceptions about Cardinal Richelieu's cultural policies and demonstrates the importance for the Court ballet of his patronage. Giovanni Bernini's illusionist sets and lighting effects for the Grand'Salle, which later became Moliere's theatre and the Opera, are discussed here in English for the first time. Desmarets' many high-level court offices, his family connections, and works - ballets, plays, poems, and religious and polemical pieces - reveal new and important links with contemporary institutions and preoccupations. In particular Dr Hall considers the plays in the light of exemplary eloquence, and considers the intentions of the Academie-francaise, and the Quarrel of the Imaginaires, in relation to royal policy and the Cartesian revolution.

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1843. This work consists of an extensive collection of pertinent texts of scripture, illustrative by the various articles of revealed religion, reduced into distinct sections, so as to embrace all the branches of each subject, the motives to the believer, the practice of the doctrines taught, and the threatenings, promises, rewards, punishments, examples, etc. annexed. It is addressed to the understanding, the hopes, and the fears of Christians, the whole forming a complete concordance to all the articles of faith and practice taught in the Holy Scriptures.

1843. This work consists of an extensive collection of pertinent texts of scripture, illustrative by the various articles of revealed religion, reduced into distinct sections, so as to embrace all the branches of each subject, the motives to the believer, the practice of the doctrines taught, and the threatenings, promises, rewards, punishments, examples, etc. annexed. It is addressed to the understanding, the hopes, and the fears of Christians, the whole forming a complete concordance to all the articles of faith and practice taught in the Holy Scriptures.

This work consists of an extensive collection of pertinent texts of scripture, illustrative by the various articles of revealed religion, reduced into distinct sections, so as to embrace all the branches of each subject, the motives to the believer, the practice of the doctrines taught, and the threatenings, promises, rewards, punishments, examples, etc. annexed. It is addressed to the understanding, the hopes, and the fears of Christians, the whole forming a complete concordance to all the articles of faith and practice taught in the Holy Scriptures.