Account of Quietism

Name: Account of Quietism
Author: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

Bossuet’s narrative of the origin and progress of Quietism and of his dealings with Fénelon (Madame Guyon, the Issy conferences, the Maxims), followed by his remarks on Fénelon’s reply. Published in 1698. Lachat edition (1864).

Source: Typed transcription of volume XX, pages 001-005. 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.