Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madame De la Mothe Guyon: To

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In two volumes. Later edition. (first published 1846). 8vo., orig.brown cloth, xviii, 431, viii, 377pp. Touch of wear to spine ends but in fact a fine copy. Jeanne Marie De La Mothe Guyon [1649-1717] French mystic and quietist writer. As a young girl Mothe spend much time in convent schools where she "went through all the religious experiences common to neurotic young women; these were turned in a mystical direction by the Duchesse de Bethune."In 1664 she married the rich, invalid, Guyon, many years her senior. Afterhis death she left her family and turned to mystical attractions, joining amonk, Father Lacombe. The two rambled through southeast France spreading their mystical ideas which eventually aroused the suspicion of the authorities. Madame Guyon was arrested as a heretic and confined to a convent and then imprisoned in the Bastille. When she was released, she retired to Blois, which became a place of pilgrimage for her admirers. (Ency.Brit). N° de ref. del artículo 9918

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