La Vie de la Mere Marie Aymee de Blonay, Dixieme Religieuse de l'Ordre de la Visitation saincte Marie, & troisième Supérieure du premier Monastere du mesme ordre
Paris: Vefve [Veuve] de Sebastien Hure et Sebastien Hure, 1655. Very Good-. Item #32734
Paris: Chez la Vefve [Veuve] de Sebastien Hure, et Sebastien Hure, rue S. Jacques, au Coeur bon, 1655. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); full contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartments; [10],468pp.; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Leather quite worn at margins with early and pleasingly crude stitching along bottom joint of upper cover and both upper cover corners, top half of front joint also split though holding, spine cocked, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper (Marie Claude of Lusage and the sisters of the Congregation de Notre Dame de Versailles), two 19th-century rubber-stamps to title page, else a Good to Very Good example, internally clean and sound.
Biography of the late Visitation Nun Marie Aimee de Blonay (1590-1650). De Blonay was the daughter of a notable Savoyard family--her father Claude de Blonay was the co-Lord of Saint Paul and an associate of Saint Francis de Sales, uncle of the author of this biography Charles Auguste. Marie de Blonay's career began inauspiciously--her entry into the Order of the Visitation, recently founded by Francis de Sales, was delayed by the brutal murder of her brother, who was ambushed and stabbed to death by the son of a rival family. The tragedy occurred while his father was abroad and the body was brought instead to his sister Marie.
Marie did eventually enter the rapidly expanding Order of the Visitation, where she first worked as a nurse before being named Superieure of the Monastere de Lyon.
OCLC locates two copies in North America as of April, 2025, at Johns Hopkins and BYU.
Price: $750.00