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[LE NOBLE (Eustache)]. L'ESPRIT de Gerson. S.l. 1692. - [LE NOBLE (Eustache)] L'ESPRIT de Gerson . S.l.: s.n., 1692. [2 br., 2], 250 pp.; 150 mm. This is a reprint from the same year as the original edition, published anonymously, without indication of location or printer, bearing the armillary sphere typographical mark – a common indication of clandestine printing in the Netherlands. The work also circulated under the title Le Bouclier de la France, ou les Sentimens de Gerson et des canonistes touchant les différends des Rois de France avec les Papes . It was placed on the Index by the Holy See. Eustache Le Noble, Baron of Saint-Georges and Tennelière (Troyes, 1643 - Paris, 1711), Attorney General in the Parliament of Metz, was convicted of forgery and imprisoned in the Conciergerie, from where he escaped. A prolific journalist and writer, he is the most likely author of the work, although the attribution has been disputed, with the name of Claude de Saint-Georges, Archbishop of Lyon, also being proposed. The *Esprit de Gerson * mobilizes the authority of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), the Grand Chancellor of the University of Paris and one of the pillars of conciliarist and Gallican ecclesiology, in defense of the liberties of the Gallican Church and the independence of the French crown from the papacy, at a time when the conflict between Louis XIV and Innocent XI made the issue particularly heated. Esteemed. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate