CLAUDE FLEURY (1640-1723) Les moeurs des Israelites, 1741. [The morals of the Israelites, 1741]

The Morals of the Israelites, or the model of a simple and sincere policy for the government of States & the reformation of morals. By M. Fleury, Priest, Preceptor to Monseigneur de Vermandois. Bruxelles, et se vend à Liège, chez Jean F. Broncart, M.DCC.XLI. (1741) Last edition, corrected and enlarged. 1 volume in12 of (4) 238 (1) pp. Bookseller's label "J. Vatar à Nantes". Bound in full contemporary basane, spine with five ornate nerves, corners dulled, spine ends and edges rubbed, a good copy however. Claude Fleury French priest, church historian and jurist. Abbé Fleury had a long career as an educator (1672-1705). He was tutor to the sons of the Prince of Conti, then tutor to the Count of Vermandois, son of King Louis XIV, and then sub-teacher to the grandsons of Louis XIV.