The Devil's Almanac

The Devil's Almanac was an almanac for the years 1737-1738 that claimed to have been published "from Hell".de Plancy, J. C., (1863). Dictionnaire Infernal. 6ed. pg.21
== History ==
The Devil's Almanac was written by Quesnel, a Jesuit hardware merchant from Dijon, as a jest against the Jansenists. 
It was suppressed because of some of its particularly daring predictions, resulting in it being considered a very rare book within a century of its publication. For the most part, the book was not serious in its content and was mostly a joke. 
The Jansenists responded by publishing a much more serious book containing anti-Jesuit propaganda. This book was called God's Almanac, was dedicated to a Mr. Carre de Montegron, and claimed to have been published "in Heaven". 
== References ==
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