Pierron (bernardin) - The Temple Of The Messins, Poem. Metz, Collignon, 1779, Period Binding.

PIERRON (Dom Bernardin), D'ARNAUD - Templum Metensibus Sacrum Carmen, The temple of the Messins, poem. Followed by Euphémie, or the triumph of religion, drama. Metz, Chez Jean-Baptiste Collignon and Chez Gerlache, 1779; in-8, XVI-220 pp. + errata; XVI-91 pp., contemporary full calf binding, spine decorated with 5 ribs, red title piece, edges marbled in red. 2 works in-8, bound in 1 volume. An engraved frontispiece for the second work, damaged headpieces but a good copy. During his leisure hours, Dom Pierron, as a good Benedictine, has studied the splendors of Metz to detach all the characters who shone there by arms or in science, the arts, eloquence, poetry, medicine, painting, engraving, etc. He brings all these great names back to life in an immense epic poem, from antiquity to the 18th century. Opposite the Latin poem we find a French translation in prose. At the end he gives the biographies of some people who never found a place in the poem and the book ends with the eclogue about the fire of the military hospital in 1774 and an ode of thanks to Louis XVI who went to Metz his court of parliament.