Les propositions contentieuses
By: entre le chevalier de Villegaignon, & Maistre Iehan Caluin, concernants la verité de l'Eucharistie. A la Royne, mere du Roy
Contributors: Le Bois, Marcus
Edition: Seconde edition / reueuë & augmentee par l'autheur.
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie d'Andre Wechel, rue S. Jehan de Beauuois au Cheual volant
Published: 1562
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Lord's Supper; Calvinists; French; History
Other titles: Propositions contentievses.; Des choses contentievses contre Calvin.; Paraphrase du chevalier de Villegaignon, sur la resolution des Sacremens, de Maistre Jehan Calvin, Ministre de Genesue.
Work titles: Ad articulos Calvinianae
Notes: French translation, with additions, of the author's Ad articulos Calvinianae, first printed Paris, 1560. Cf. Sabin, 99762.

A defence of the author's views on the Eucharist which forms the basis for an extended controversy with Jean Calvin, deriving from the author's conduct in Brazil. Villegaignon was appointed by King Henry II in 1555 to establish a colony in Brazil. A group of 600 colonists began construction of Fort Coligny on the island of Serigipe near Rio de Janeiro. It has been claimed that Villegaignon wrote Calvin asking for a minister from Geneva to be sent to the colony to keep religious order among the settlers. In 1557 a small group of ministers from Geneva arrived, including pastors Jean Chartier and Pierre Richer. Both of these pastors claimed that the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation was nothing short of cannibalism. The disagreements between Richier and Villegaignon grew more and more heated and finally, the group from Geneva fled the island for the mainland. When a few attempted to return Villegaignon had them thrown into Guanabara Bay.

"Propositions de Pierre Richer differentes à la doctrine de Caluin son maistre", p. 32-34, 1st count, has separate caption title.

"Paraphrase dv chevalier de Villegaignon, sur la resolution des Sacremens, de Maistre Iehan Caluin, Ministre de Genesue", p. [1]-43, 3rd count, has separate dated title page with imprint: A Paris: de l'Imprimerie d'Andre Wechel, rue S. Jehan de Beauuois au Cheual volant, 1562.

Signatures: a-z⁴ A-L⁴ chi² (chi2 verso blank) 2A-2D⁴ 2E⁶ (2E6 verso blank)

Woodcut printer's vignette of flying horse on title page; head pieces; initials.

Cf. Sabin, 99762.

Cf. Cioranescu, A. 16. s., 21821.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), II:924.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Brooker and Sophia Augusta Brown Funds.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Marcus le Bois (?): ms autograph on title page.