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CARRÉ DE MONTGERON, LOUIS-BASILE. La Vérité des Miracles opérés par l'Intercession de M. de Paris . . . Troisième Édition. 20 engraved plates. [4], lxiv, 480; 252 pages, including half-title, with 2-leaf Avertissement bound between pages lxii and lxiii. 4to, 251x198 mm, modern 1/4 leather, spine faded; occasional toning of text, plates clean. "Cologne: Chez les Libraires de la Compagnie" [i. e., Amsterdam?], 1739
Compilation of cases of miraculous healing alleged to have occurred at the grave of the Jansenist theologian François de Paris (1690-1727) in the cemetery of St. Médard until it was closed by order of Louis XV. The illustrations are mostly dramatic before-and-after images. Seligmann, The Mirror of Magic, pages 453-56.
