Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

Name: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
Author: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

A treatise in ten books on the origin of society, authority, the duties of subjects and the duties of the prince, deduced proposition by proposition from Holy Scripture. Written for the education of the Dauphin (around 1677-79) and published in 1709. Lachat edition (1864).

Source: Typed transcription of volume XXIII, pages 012-016 (books I-V) and volume XXIV, pages 002-006 (books VI-X). The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.