Traité des trois imposteurs, des religions dominantes et du culte, D'après l'analyse conforme à l'histoire
by Claude F. X. (Claude François Xavier)] (ed.) [Mercier de Compiègne
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Full title: Traité des trois imposteurs, des religions dominantes et du culte, D'après l'analyse conforme à l'histoire: contenant Nombre d’observations morales, analogues à celles mises a l’ordre du jour pour l’affermissement de la République, sa gloire, et l’édification des peuples de tous les pays. Orné de trois gravures.
8vo. pp. [4], 77, pp. [4]. Modern boards, preserving original blue paper wrappers. Bookplates of the Friends of the Library of Johns Hopkins University and of Leonard L. Mackall. With three engravings, the third depicting Pope Pius VI (rather than Jesus) alongside Moses and Mohammed.
A false imprint, supplied by the bookseller and publisher ‘citoyen Mercier’ to his adaptation of the seminal edition of the infamous (and probably non-existent) heretical text ‘De tribus impostoribus’ with commentary of Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1768), to post-Revolutionary France with new echoes, in the supplementary material – taken from Rousseau, Voltaire, and other crypto-Deistic authors – as alternatives to established Christianity. See Heather Blair, ‘Impostors and Revolution: on the ‘Philadelphie’ 1797 Edition of the Traité des trois imposteurs’, in Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe (1996), ed. Silvia Berti et al., pp. 297-304: ‘the only relation that this book had to America or Washington is imaginary and symbolic, a ‘pious fraud’ in the civil religion of the French Revolution.’
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