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[Normandy] - Grandet (Joseph) - The life of sir Pierre Crestey,
priest, parish priest of Barenton, in the diocese of Avranches (in
Lower Normandy). Rouen, chez Behourt 1722. In-12° full calf
frontispiece, 12 ff., 348 pp. "Pierre Crestey founded a
hospital in Vimoutiers and in 1676 gave its direction to the Sisters of the
of the Hôtel-Dieu of Sées. Two years later he was appointed to the curacy of Barenton.
two years later, he established a college for the instruction of young boys
and a school for girls. In 1692 he founded a hospital like the one in Vimoutiers.
Vimoutiers, contributed a lot to the creation of a Hotel-Dieu in Bernay and
and being helped in this pious enterprise by a young lady of great merit
merit, Mme de Ticheville, from the diocese of Sées.
The memory of this beneficent clergyman is still venerated in these regions.
. Ex-libris "Alberto La Forest de Divonne". Not very frequent. Wear of use.
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