[WEST INDIES - MARTINIQUE - CARIBBEAN - RELIGIONS - HAITI - SLAVERY]
To be continued in my ebay store,
around 60 books and magazines from René COTTRELL's library
on the theme of the Antilles and Martinique
René COTTRELL made his business house
(created in 1907, with her brother and cousin)
one of the most important on the island of Martinique,
He was Belgian Consul and Foreign Trade Advisor
A great friend of Arts and Letters, he contributed greatly to their development; he knew theHistory of the West Indies
and particularly that of Martinique in its smallest details
He was founding president of the Martinique History Society and the Revue des
Annals of the West Indies from 1955
He left a library of inestimable wealth, we are lucky to sell here
some of the works which were part of it and which still remained in private hand
Some volumes of this set carry their Magnificent and rare ex-libris
(Anonymous woodcut - RC - Sisyphus pushing his rock with the motto:
The study of Humanities consoles humans - Labor - Tenacity - Probity)
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Without ex-libris
JOSEPH RENNARD
(18..-1958)
Father JOSEPH RENNARD died in June 1958 in
Philippeville (today Skikda in Algeria). He came to Algeria after
exercised his ministry to the Martinique for about forty years
Wherever he lived, he was interested in local history, firstly that of Mont-Saxonnex, his native country in Savoie, then that of the various Martinique parishes of which he had been pastor. (priest at Case-Pilote, François, Robert), and on the eve of his death to those of Constantine and Philippeville
As a priest, he was especially interested in ecclesiastical and religious history, and it is as the author of works and articles on West Indian and especially Martinican ecclesiastical history that he is known.
His works very documented, based on reliable and diversified sources
remained references
He analyzed the ecclesiastical evolution of the French West Indies since the beginnings
from colonization until the eve of the First World War in his work:
Religious history of the French West Indies from its origins to 1914 (1954).
A documentary source which has helped many researchers including Gabriel Debien:
"Mr. Rennard, who was a priest in Martinique for a long time, has been studying the religious past of this island for thirty years and more. He has seen the parish registers, the factory archives, he knows the oral traditions and each time he comes to France, it is to go to the National Archives or those on rue Oudinot. He even went as far as the Propaganda Archives in Rome. He published texts, a Bibliography of the sources of the religious history of the Antilles, a History of the parishes of Martinique.
(Gabriel Debien, J. Rennard, Religious history of the French Antilles from the origins to 1914, based on unpublished documents, in Annales. Economies, Societies, Civilizations. 11th year, No. 4, 1956. pp. 552-553).
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ABBE JOSEPH RENNARD
(18..-1958)
Priest of Case-Pilote at the time
Extremely rare Reprinted under specially printed cover
taken from the
Review of the History of the Church of France
July-September 1924 issue
About a recent essay
on the religious history of Martinique
Paris, Letouzey & Ané, 1924
Original edition
(no large papers)
First Printing
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Stapled booklet In-8, (24x16cm), 16pp.
Pin, as published, salmon cover printed in black
(Good general condition, clean and quite fresh,
marks, minimal dirt,
creases, small tears or f
various usual burping
).
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Good copy, yellowed paper as always,
clean, almost without foxing or light interior stains
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see visuals...
Very rare!
One of Abbé Rennard's first publications...
Not found!
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[Provenance Archives, Library
and personal collection of René COTTRELL]
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