L'Affaire clementine: Une fraude pieuse a l'ere des Lumieres in Bloomington, MN

The Clementine affair resulted from the publication of the Lettres du pape Clement XIV by the audacious Louis-Antoine Caraccioli (1776). This formidable hoax is looked at from three angles: its origins, its exceptional reception, and the profound shifts revealed by this innovative apologetic work.