Letters of Piety and Spiritual Direction

Name: Letters of Piety and Spiritual Direction
Author: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

Bossuet’s letters of spiritual direction, arranged by recipient: to a young lady of Metz, to Mme de Maisonfort, to Sister Cornuau, to Mme d’Albert de Luynes and to the abbess and nuns of Jouarre, to nuns of various convents, to Mme de Beringhen. Lachat edition (1864), with the editor’s historical remarks.

Source: Typed transcription of volumes XXVII-XXVIII (Lettres de piété et de direction). The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.