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[RÉLY, JEAN DE.] Les Remonstrances faictes au Roy Loys Unzieme, sur les Privileges de l'Eglise Gallicane, & les Plainctifs & Doleances du Peuple [and other texts]. Woodcut Bourbon arms on verso of penultimate leaf. 141, [3] leaves, including final blank. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt with strapwork center- and cornerpieces on covers and 18th-century morocco spine compartments, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact; some light foxing, scattered ink blots and smudges, early inscription on title, several leaves browned toward end. Bookplate of Louis-François-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1696-1747), his gilt arms added in bottom spine compartment (Olivier 407). Paris: Jean Dallier, 1561
Collection first published the preceding year containing the text of parliamentary protests against the 1461 revocation by Louis XI of the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges of 1438 restricting the powers of the Papacy over the French Church; various writings on orders of chivalry; and speeches made before the 1484 Estates General at Tours.
