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CESAREIA (Eusébio de). HISTOIRE de L’Eglise [...] traduite par monsieur Cousin. A Paris. 1675. - CESAREIA (Eusébio de) HISTOIRE de L’Eglise [...] traduite par monsieur Cousin . A Paris: Chez Damien Foucault, 1675. 4 v.; [52], 830, [24] pp.; [26], 476, [12] pp.; [28], 566, [14] pp.; [112], 750, [10] pp.; 270 mm. French translation of Eusebius of Caesarea's *Historia ecclesiastica* (c. 265-c. 340), the first great history of the Church, by Louis Cousin (1627-1707), president of the Cour des Monnaies and translator of Greek ecclesiastical and Byzantine historians. The work, dedicated to Louis XIV, brings together, in addition to Eusebius, the ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and Evagrius, thus offering in French the sequence of the Greek historians of the early Church. The first volume also includes the * Life of Emperor Constantine * and Constantine's address to the assembly of the faithful. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate