ALSACE. "ÉVÊCHÉ DE STRASBOURG (Bas-Rhin)". Letter A.S. André - Lot 520

ALSACE. "ÉVÊCHÉ DE STRASBOURG (Bas-Rhin)". Letter A.S. André RAESS Bishop of STRASBOURG (ca. 1855) 4 pages in-8° - Beautiful letter, to a Viscount, about his project to Build a large establishment for the Jesuits in Strasbourg: "a College in Strasbourg because this city is on the banks of the Rhine and lends itself admirably to receiving especially the young foreign nobility. Here, Monsieur le Vicomte, is a confidential copy of the memorandum I shall address this evening to the Emperor...". + a Text of 4pp in-4°: "Exposé succinct d'un projet concernant le reste d'une propriété appartenant au diocèse de STRASBOURG." "... the rights of the 900,000 Catholics of Alsace, who enthusiastically welcomed the accession of His Majesty, have been sacrificed to the antipathy that the Protestants have vowed to the Jesuits...". -