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Letters on the Quietist Affair (II)

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

The continuation and end of the correspondence on the Quietist affair, from September 1698 to 1703: Bossuet’s letters to his nephew in Rome, the abbé Bossuet’s letters to his uncle, letters of cardinals and bishops, down to the condemnation of Fénelon’s book and its aftermath. Lachat edition (1864), volume XXX.

Contents

Source: Typed transcription of volume XXX, pages 001-015 (Lettres sur l’affaire du quiétisme, suite). 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.