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Yves de Vallone: The Making of an Esprit-Fort

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  • © 1982

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  1. James O’Higgins
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Biographical

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Search for De Vallone

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 3-11

    3. The Story of Yves De Vallone

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 12-37

    4. The Calvinism of de Vallone

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 38-49

    5. Predestination and the Quarrel with Jaques Bernard

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 50-63

  3. La Religion du Chrétien

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Introduction

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 67-69

    3. God

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 70-81

    4. The Soul

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 82-111

    5. Authority

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 112-131

    6. Scripture

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 132-165

    7. The Christian Religion

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 166-183

  4. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. The Unorthodoxy of de Vallone

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 187-188

    3. The Clandestine Manuscripts

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 189-222

    4. Conclusion

      • James O’Higgins
      Pages 223-227

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 229-248
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About this book

The writing of the second part of this book presented a peculiar difficulty. On the one hand I had the great advantage of having found the first rough draft of the manuscript La Religion du Chretien, corrected and often recorrected. Authorship could eventually be established beyond shadow of doubt, and in the corrections one could see de Vallone changing his opinions as he wrote. On the other the sheer length of the manuscript - about 140,000 words - plus the num­ ber of corrections - well over 3,000, many of them lengthy - the enormous number of references in the text to the Classics, to the Scriptures and Apochrypha, to the Fathers, to Philosophers, ancient and contemporary or near contemporary to de Vallone, and to a considerable number of other contem­ porary authors, all of which would require a footnote (not to speak of other footnotes necessary as comments on the text itself) made the production of a critical edition a financial impossibility. Instead I decided, for the sake of scholars interested in this type of manuscript, to give a full, i. ndeed meticulous­ perhaps too meticulous - digest of the manuscript with a running commentary, showing the influences working on de Vallone, the intellectual atmosphere in which he lived, indicating the significance of all the major revisions and correc­ tions in his text and commenting on what one can only describe as his own world-theory and on his use of his authorities and of their influence upon him.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Yves de Vallone: The Making of an Esprit-Fort

  • Authors: James O’Higgins

  • Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7458-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2520-5Published: 31 March 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-7460-9Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7458-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0066-6610

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 248

  • Topics: History, general

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