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First published in Liège from 1746 to 1741, The Cursus Theologiae of the Dominican Charles-René Billuart (1685-1757) gradually attained, over the course of the 19th century, the rank of a French classic on Thomistic theology, notably as a rsult of three significant republications: the Méquignon edition (1827-1831), the Albanel and Martin edition (1839), and especially the Lequette edition (1867-1868). In republishing Fr. Billuart's Cursus Theologiae, the Méquignon bookstore offered the public a theology textbook which was a pedagogical commentary on St. Thomas' Summa, but it also reintrodued, onto the French theological stage of the Romantic period, certain polemical elements which appeared largely dated, and which seemed to have diminisned in interest. From its first edition and right through the end of the 19th century, Billuart's masterpiece, by nurturing the debate between Thomists and Molinists, assisted the long process by which the Catholic dispute over grace would eventually fade out.