[Arsenic Collection] Three Holy Lives To Learn From: L'Abbé Carron - Vie de Mme. de la Vallière etc (1853)

M. L’Abbé Carron. Vie de Mme. de la Vallière; Vie de Perrette- Marie de Combes de Morelles; Vie de Jean-Baptiste de la Salle. Paris & Limoges: Martial Ardant Frères, 1853. (185 x 115 mm)  214 pp. and table with black and white engraved frontispiece and decorated boarder around title page with tissue guard. Pale green cardboard binding (cartonnage romantique papier), with color illustration onlay on the front cover and gilt decoration embossed on the both front and black covers. Back, spine, end bands, and corners rubbed with with some internal foxing. Overall GOOD condition. ABOUT THE TEXT—  From the series “Librairie des Bon Livres” This text gives three 19th-century "hagiographies" of 17th-century holy French women and a man.  Françoise-Louise de La Baume Blanc, the duchess of La Vallière (1644-1710), was Mistress of Louis XIV for six years. Amid this decadent lifestyle, she eventually turned to religion and entered a Carmelite convent in Paris. Perrette- Marie de Combes de M