FEUARDENT (François). Entremangeries et gueres ministrales. C'est à dire, haines, contradictions, accusations, condamnations, maledictions, excommunications, fureurs & furies des Ministres de ce siècle, les uns co,tre les autres, touchant les principaux fondemens de la foy, & religion Chrestienne. Paris: veuve Sébastien Nivelle, 1604. - In-8, 161x103: (16 ff.), 379 pp. miscalculated 389, (6 ff.). Dark green morocco, gilt roulette framing the boards, smooth spine decorated (early 19th-century binding). Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire, 1926, pp. 101-110. - Frère, Manuel de Bibliographie normande, I, p. 467. Third edition, revised and enlarged, dedicated to Monseigneur Nicolas de Briroy (1526-1620), bishop of Coutances, and to the canons and chapter of his diocese. It follows the first two editions, published respectively in Caen and Paris in 1601. At the beginning of the 17th century, in the diocese of Coutances, a violent controversy pitted the Cordelier François Feuardent (1539-1610) against the Protestant physician Jean Brouaut. While religious polemics between Catholics and Reformed had lost their virulence by the end of the 16th century, this local conflict rekindled tensions. Jean Brouaut was a doctor and member of the Coutances Academy who, in the 1580s, was denounced in the pulpit by Feuardent for attacking God and the law. Brouaut's defense met with the approval of the chapter and the bishop of Coutances, Arthus de Cossé, who disowned Feuardent from the pulpit. The latter, humiliated, nursed a tenacious grudge against Brouaut. In 1601, he published the Entremangeries ministrales, a virulent attack on Protestant pastors, aimed particularly at Brouaut. Brouaut countered with his Réplique aux illusions et fumées de R. François Feuardent (1603), in which he defended his ideas with verve, mixing theological arguments, satyr poems and mocking anagrams. In it, he denounced Feuardent's excesses, calling him a "cockroach" and an "escorcheur de l'Évangile", while asserting his status as a recognized poet. Feuardent counter-attacked in 1604 with this third, enlarged edition of his Entremangeries, while Brouaut, accused of forgery (in connection with a forged signature), had been imprisoned in Carentan in 1603. He died there before the end of his trial, inspiring scornful epitaphs from Feuardent and ironic verses from Claude Gauchet, archdeacon of Bayeux. Feuardent was not only a resolute opponent of the Protestants. He also distinguished himself by the violence of his preaching against Henry III and Henry IV. The edition contains two epistles: the first is the one quoted at the head, and the second is addressed "Aux ministres et prédicans de la Parole". This is followed by a long poem entitled "Sur les divins et rares escrits de Reverend Pere Monsieur Feu-ardent, Par L.S.D.R.", then the table of chapters, and finally a succession of sonnets and quatrains by Claude Gauchet (1540-162.), Adrian de Rouen, curé de Drosy, Longaulnay and "Guill. Machard, Lexonois". A fine copy in early 19th-century morocco. Spine slightly faded.