| Women of Modern France Contributor(s): Thieme, Hugo P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3732628892 ISBN-13: 9783732628896 Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh OUR PRICE: $42.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.82 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - French |
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| Publisher Description: Excerpt: ...at the convent, she consulted her superiors as to the advisability of continuing her verse making; and upon being told that such occupation was not a means of winning the grace of Jesus Christ, she abandoned it. pg 207 Cousin maintained that the avowed principle of the Port-Royalists was the withdrawal from all worldly pleasure and attachment. "'Marriage is a homicide; absolute renunciation is the true regime of a Christian.' Jacqueline Pascal is an exaggeration of Port-Royal, and Port-Royal is an exaggeration of the religious spirit of the seventeenth century. Man is too little considered; all movement of the physical world comes from God; all our acts and thoughts, except those of crime and error, come from and belong to Him. Nothing is our own; there is no free will; will and reason have no power. The theory of grace is the source of all truth, virtue, and merit |