Elévations au Sacré-coeur.
[Paris], Chez l’auteur et chez Mme Ludet, [avril] 1834.
In-12 (175 x 110 mm), brown basane, cathedral decoration, gilt roulette, smooth spine, gilt edges; handwritten notes erased on verso of last engraving, binding and corners a little rubbed, two wormholes on spine, serpents removed (Contemporary binding).
A charming book of devotion to the heart of Jesus, specially designed for novenas. It consists of a suite of ten lithographed engravings signed C. Mondain, with their moral explanations on the versos.
The back of the tenth engraving could be completed by hand with the date and name of the person who had done the novena.
This very rare print appeared only during the month of April 1834, to make a novena to obtain "dans les temps actuels, toutes sortes de bénédictions, et les grandes miséricordes de Dieu sur la France."
The author, Abbé Séta, the first chaplain at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris, was most likely referring to the massacre in the Rue Transnonain on 14 April 1834, when a detachment of Louis-Philippe's soldiers slaughtered the inhabitants of a Parisian building.
No copies of this special edition for April 1834 have been found in online library directories.
The work was published in 1831 (by Mme Sirjean, two different editions in the Lyon municipal library) and in 1832 (a single copy in the Institut Catholique de Paris).
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