Résumé
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When she married in 1865, Perpétue de Marsac became Vicountess d'Aurelle de Paladines. In July 1895, the year she turned fifty, she went to stay at Port-Royal des Champs, in order to immerse herself in the spiritual adventure of the nuns and the Solitaires there, and to accomplish, in a radical manner, her own conversion. She would spend thirty-seven years there, scaling the stony paths of penitence until her death in 1932. She arranged a monastic cell for herself that conformed to the requirements of poverty as stated in the Port-Royal Constitution. She had her extensive library brought from Marsac and also joined the long line of Port-Royal copyists, personally reproducing documents that had been loaned or making copies for friends of texts that had particularly moved them: an absolute goldmine for those who wish to rediscover neglected aspects of Jansenism, such as la Petite Église de Toulouse or Les Amis de la Vérité lyonnais. Perpétue de Marsac was brought up in a Toulousain milieu of provincial 'parliamentary' nobility, cultivated and critically legitimist, dominated by a Jansenism rooted in the 17th century, which proclaimed: - the primacy of Saint Augustine and that of the council over the pope, and an attachment to the liberties of the Gallican Church - and of the 18th century - biblical Figurism, convulsions and visions, anticipation of the conversion of Jews and the return of the prophet Elijah. This neo-Jansenism is characterised by an intense devotion to the Cross it virulently condemns usury and renews its old hostility towards the Society of Jesus. In this book, which attests the survival of Jansenism into the 20th century, we discover the appealing character of the last 'Solitaire de Port-Royal', the network itself and those related to it (in particular Augustin Gazier, professor at the Sorbonne and historian of Port-Royal).
L'auteur - Véronique Alemany
Autres livres de Véronique Alemany
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Véronique Alemany |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 26/04/2013 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 989g |
EAN13 | 9782204099516 |
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