L'Analyse des vertus en abregé.

Bookseller Notes

A brief and vigourous late seventeenth-century exposition of the virtues according to established religion, heavy on the sins of the flesh. It is in two parts: Vertus Thologales, and Vertus Cardinales, with a handy index to the whole. The second part is less intensely religious, and strays into the prudential with virginity, abstinence, meekness, magnificence, poverty and vengeance as headlines around which the author defines a worthy life. The writer refers to the work as 'un fruit du Desert', alluding to his solitary retreat.