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The volume is enriched with dozens of contemporary plates as well as introductory essays and appendices by Claude Barthe, François Hou, and Shawn Tribe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePRAISE FOR THIS BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLiturgical Travels\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThrough France\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a goldmine of information about customs, architecture, clothing, piety, liturgy, and social life in early-modern Europe. This edition was prepared with loving attention to detail and good taste. It exudes the fascination of solemn liturgy. A treasure trove of information and competent commentary for deepening our understanding of the West’s liturgical tradition.” —Alkuin Schachenmayr, O.Cist., Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is high time to re-evaluate the complex phenomenon of Neo-Gallicanism and to study its representatives. Le Brun des Marettes and his contemporaries were an early modern sort of ethnologists, combining philology with fieldwork. Their travelogues open up an unexpected fountain of information: a world of cathedrals, parishes, and monasteries, throbbing with life in ancien régime France . . . a bewildering mixture of medieval survival, baroque pomposity, and enlightened antiquarianism.” —Miklós István Földváry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Liturgical life after Trent has all too often been portrayed as one of lifeless submission to centralised Roman rubricism. Not so—at least in France—as this volume makes perfectly clear. Le Brun immerses us in the colourful landscape of pre-Revolution Catholic worship which, in spite of many differences in local detail, displays a living liturgical and cultural integrity that is utterly enviable in our own highly compartmentalised and fragmented set of secular subcultures.” —Alcuin Reid, OSB, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Organic Development of the Liturgy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Originally intended as a kind of ecclesiastical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMichelin Guide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Le Brun’s travelogue through the churches of France now serves as a liturgical time machine. While one may not always find oneself in sympathy with the author’s judgments, the spirited, imaginary debates a reader can have with Le Brun make for delightful company along this literary pilgrimage.” —Urban Hannon, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThomistic Mystagogy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In our age of information saturation, it is astonishing how little access the English speaker has to data about the worship practices of our Catholic ancestors. Filling this lacuna is a fresh translation of Le Brun’s eighteenth-century classic. Readers will be surprised by how much authentic liturgical diversity existed during a time of alleged Tridentine ossification.” —Michael P. Foley, Baylor University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo read more:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sicutincensum.wordpress.com\/2025\/07\/10\/liturgical-treasures-of-pre-revolutionary-france\/\"\u003eLiturgical Treasures of Pre-Revolutionary France\u003c\/a\u003e,\" \u003cem\u003eCanticum Salomonis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2025\/07\/liturgical-travels-through-france-new.html\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2025\/07\/liturgical-travels-through-france-new.html\"\u003eLiturgical Travels Through France\u003c\/a\u003e,\" \u003cem\u003eNew Liturgical Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42043226620002,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42043226652770,"sku":null,"price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42043226685538,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/liturgicaltravels.jpg?v=1751924060"},{"product_id":"cromwell","title":"Cromwell","description":"\u003ch4 data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003eHardcover | 330 pp.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 22 years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003eA landed Puritan enthusiast, made rich by the Great Pillage, Oliver Cromwell felt called by God to do His work by any means. 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