Vie de S. Francois D'Assise Par Paul Sabatier. Ouverage Couronne Par L'Academie francaise (Prix Marcelin Guerin). Trente-Cinquieme Edition.

Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, (Societe anonyme), 33 Rue De Seine, [ c.1900 ] .. A very good full leather binding by 'Roger De Coverley'. 8vo. 8.75" x 7.75" x 1.25" (22cm x 14.6cm x 2.9cm). [4pp.]/pp.131/pp.418/[2pp. - ['Table Des Matieres'] . Polished blue morocco with ornately embellished gilt floral and leaf patterns at each of the four corners and connected by gilt-ruled borders . Hinges and edges rubbed. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt ruled compartments and gilt titles: "Paul Sabatier"; "Vie De S.Francois D'Assise"; "Paris" . Top page edges gilt. Gilt decorated turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. Small binder's stamp to top of front endpaper: "Roger De Coverly & Sons". Pencil note to front free-endpaper: "Given to A. A. A. Isaac by Stanley Baldwin, about 1922 ?" Light toning to page edges, otherwise clean French text throughout. VG. ** Charles Paul Marie Sabatier (3 or 9 August 1858 � 5 March 1928), was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Sabatier was born at Saint-Michel-de-Chabrillanoux in Ard�che, and was educated at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris. In 1885 he became vicar of St Nicolas, Strasbourg, but in 1889, declining an offer of preferment which was conditional on his becoming a German subject, he was expelled. For four years he was pastor of Saint-Cierge in Ard�che, but had to retire in 1893 due to health concerns. He then devoted himself entirely to historical research, spending much of his time in Italy. He had already produced an edition of the Didache, and in November 1893 published his important Life of Francis of Assisi. This book gave a great stimulus to the study of medieval literary and religious documents, especially of such as are connected with the history of the Franciscan Order. In 1908 he delivered the Jowett Lectures on Modernism at the Passmore Edwards Settlement, London. Sabatier's 1893 book La vie de St. Fran�ois d'Assise (translated as Life of St. Francis of Assisi in 1894) was placed upon the Index of Forbidden Books by the Catholic Church in 1894. He also published in 1905 A propos de la s�paration des �glises et de l'�tat, in 1909 Les modernistes, notes d'histoire religieuse contemporaine, and in 1911 L'orientation religieuse de la France actuelle. In 1919, Sabatier became professor of Church history at the Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Strasbourg. He died in Strasbourg in 1928." - See Wikipedia