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Treatise on Usury and Memoranda on the Printing of Works of Doctrine

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

The Treatise on Usury, in propositions drawn from Scripture and tradition (the prohibition of usury in the old law, its spirit, the teaching of Christians), followed by Bossuet’s memoranda to the chancellor on the printing of works of doctrine. Lachat edition (1866).

Contents

Source: Typed transcription of volume XXXI, pages 002-003. 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.