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Aelred of Rievaulx (saint), 51 see also saints

Affaire Picot, 34
Agnes (saint), 88 see also saints
Agnus Dei, 77, 165n55
Aiguillon, duchesse de, Marie-Madeleine de
Vignerot, 27, 28, 143n21, n25
All Saints (Feast), 23, 44, 62
Ambrose (saint), 93 see also saints
Anne of Austria, 267, 29, 30, 39, 45, 65,
66, 114, 159n105
Anti-Italianism, 125
aristocratic households, 114 18
Arnauld, Agns Mre, 40, 55, 69, 94
Arnauld, Anglique Mre, 3, 28, 34, 35, 37,
41, 55, 57, 60, 145n5
Arnauld, Antoine, 34, 35, 37, 61, 68, 69, 83,
84, 85, 86, 94
Arnauld, Henri, 69
Arnauld dAndilly, Robert de, 34, 46, 51
Athanasius (saint), 80, 81, 82, 122 see also
saints
Aubignac, Franois Hdelin, abb de, 26
Augustine (saint), 41, 43, 51, 67, 80, 82, 84,
122 see also saints
Augustinian, 2, 3, 41, 42, 58, 65, 66, 82, 83,
122

Borromeo, Charles, 46, 83, 86

Instructions to Confessors, 83
Breuil, Jean-Baptiste du, 117
Breviary, 78, 122
Brienne, Louise de Bon du Masss,
comtesse de
association with Jansenism, 84
biography, 1316
conversion, 35
friendships with Maure and Longueville,
489
funeral, 97
membership in the Ladies of Charity, 26
Brienne, Henri-Auguste de Lomnie, comte
de, 13
Brienne, Htel de, 76, 88
Brienne, Louis-Henri de Lomnie, comte
de, 48
Bourzeis, Amable de, 34, 83
Buzenval, Nicolas Choart de, 69

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Bacon, Francis, 51
Barbara (saint), 93 see also saints
Baroque, 3, 4, 20, 73, 88, 90, 91, 95, 98, 99,
110, 121, 125, 131
Barnabus (saint), 93 see also saints
Basil (saint), 82, 83 see also saints
Belles Amies, 2, 78, 21, 24, 31
Bernard (saint), 56 see also saints
Brulle, Pierre de, 28, 39
Bible, 51, 72, 79, 81, 92, 104, 105

cabinet (as devotional space), 71, 728, 93,

95, 101, 115
canonical hours, 89, 99, 122
Capucins, 63
Carmelites, 26, 27, 36, 37, 44, 55, 58, 62, 63,
64, 84, 89, 97, 102, 118
Catherine of Alexandria (saint), 93 see also
saints
Catherine of Siena (saint), 88 see also saints
Catholic Reformation, 1
rigorist turn, 23
Catholic League, 1, 27, 29
Caulet, Franois de, 69
chagrin, 54, 154n48
Chambre-bleue, 23, 24, 44, 47, 50, 58
Champaigne, Philippe de, 39

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Chamblay Haraucourt, Csar-Franois de,

33, 34
Chantal, Jeanne-Franoise Fremyot de, 36
chapel, 8791, 94, 98, 104, 107, 121, 124,
170n136
La Roche-Guyon, 91-3, 122
Chapelain, Jean, 24, 44
Charity, 1, 26, 27, 47, 71, 73, 85, 11113,
117
Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan, duchesse de, 31
Ciron, Gabriel de, 36, 40, 60, 113
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 90, 114
Communion, 3, 6, 35, 37, 39, 46, 85, 86, 87,
115 see also Eucharist
Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement see Company of the Holy Sacrament
Company of the Holy Sacrament, 4, 25, 28,
45, 65, 123
Cond, prince de, Henri II de Bourbon, 8,
106
Cond, prince de, Louis II de Bourbon, 10,
30, 45, 114, 125
Cond, Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, princesse de, 8, 23, 26, 27, 28,
33, 47, 49, 106, 119
Cond, Htel de, 28, 33, 36, 47, 49, 50, 115
confession, 3, 34, 37, 38, 46, 51, 55, 72, 85,
86, 99, 115, 122 see also penance
Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists),
27, 113
Conti, Anne-Marie Martinozzi, princesse de
biography, 10
conversion, 36, 40
charity, 112
friendship with Longueville, 49, 523
funeral, 97
household morality, 115
portrait, 11
position at court, 66, 68
receipt of the sacraments, 87
relationship with Port-Royal, 69
retreat, 10310
spiritual autobiography, 38
Conti, Armand de Bourbon, prince de, 10,
25, 30, 31, 36, 50, 52, 53, 58, 60, 69, 78,
104, 106, 107, 112, 120, 129,
Les Devoirs des grands, 43
Trait de la comdie, 120

Conti, Franois-Louis, de Bourbon, prince

de, 10
Conti, Htel de, 87, 112, 125
Conti, Louis-Armand de Bourbon, prince
de, 10
Corneille, Pierre, 24
Corpus Christi (fte-dieu), 104, 122, 123, 124
Coton, Pierre, 35
Council of Trent, 1, 111, 122
church Interiors, 878
grace and justification, 40
liturgy, 121 see also music
Periculoso, 64
sacrament of penance, 85
Court, 4, 5, 6, 7, 17, 20, 39, 44, 46, 54, 59,
62, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 90, 102, 107,
114, 118, 119, 1214 see also Versailles
conversion narrative see spiritual autobiography
Cum Occasione, 3, 42, 68

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Dames de la Charit see Ladies of Charity

Daughters of Charity, 26, 27, 112
Davanne, Nicolas, 92
Deffita, Madeleine (mademoiselle Viole),
113
delayed absolution, 857, 99
Deslyons, Jean, 69
Desmares, Joseph-Guy-Toussaint, 114,
157n76
dvots, 1, 34, 249, 33, 35, 445, 99, 111,
127, 128, 132
devotional books, 71, 7885
devotional culture, definition, 47
droit and fait distinction see Port-Royal
Formulary Controversy

early Christians, 4, 20, 51, 81, 82, 83, 84, 91,

92, 93, 130, 131
emotions (religious), 53, 55, 73, 99, 154n42
see also chagrin and penitence
Esprit, Jacques, 48, 61, 62, 112
estates, 20, 26, 31, 34, 45, 46, 48, 60, 70, 92,
98, 10213, 11825
Eucharist, 35, 85, 86, 87, 104, 123 see also
Communion

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Faustina (saint), 93 see also saints
Feuillantines, 26
Filles de la Charit see Daughters of Charity
Five Propositions, 68
Flchier, Esprit, 27
Fontainebleau, 54, 66, 69, 70, 106
friendship
spiritual, 1, 4, 7, 16, 19, 35, 49, 50, 512,
53, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 70, 94, 103,
118, 129, 131
vocabulary and semantics, 48, 52
Fronde, 1, 19, 24, 2932, 33, 35, 38, 45,
48, 65, 111, 123, 125, 142n3, 144n39,
144n41
Gamaches, Marie-Antoinette de Lomnie de
Brienne, marquise de, 23, 49
Gazette de France, 122, 123
Godeau, Antoine, 58, 84, 150n77
Gondi, Jean-Franois de, (Archbishop of
Paris), 87
Gondi, Paul de see Cardinal de Retz
Gondi, Paule-Marguerite-Franoise de, 130
Gonzague, Marie-Louise de, Queen of
Poland
biography, 13
connection to dvots, 27, 28
conversion, 37, 57, 60
portrait, 14
probate inventory, 74
relationship with Vincent de Paul and
the Congregation of the Mission, 113
Gonzague, Anne de, princesse Palatine, 13, 30
Gregory the Great (saint), 51 see also saints
Gumn, Anne de Rohan, princesse de
association with Jansenism, 84
biography, 13
cabinet, 77
chapel in Paris, 878
conversion, 345, 60
friendships with Maure and Sabl, 48
funeral, 97
portrait, 15
Gumn, Htel de, 77, 87
Gumn, Louis VII de Rohan, prince de,
13, 77
Guercheville, Antoinette de Pons, marquise
de, 27

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Guise family, 5, 27, 99, 110

Marie de Lorraine, duchesse de Guise,
89, 90
Charles de Lorraine, duc de Guise, 27
Guise, Htel de, 8990, 92
Harlay de Champvallon, Franois de, (Archbishop of Paris), 91
Hermant, Godefroy, 44
Index of Prohibited Books, 834, 169n125
Jansen, Cornelius, 3, 31, 65, 68
Jansenism/Jansenist, 2, 3, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31,
57, 61, 81, 84, 85, 98, 107, 110, 125,
129, 130
Jerome (saint), 54 see also saints
Jesuits, 3, 25, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 41, 43, 77,
81, 84, 86, 88, 94, 111, 125
John Cassian (saint), 51, 82, 93 see also saints
Joseph (saint), 62 see also saints

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Ladies of Charity, 26, 27, 48, 113
La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La
Vergne, madame de, 7, 61, 130
La Lane, Nel de, 101, 118
Lamoignon, Madeleine de, 29, 113
La Rochefoucauld, Franois VI, duc de, 30,
43, 144n39
La Rochefoucauld, Franois VII, duc de, 10
La Roche-Guyon, chteau de, 31, 80, 82,
91-3, 103, 114, 122, 124
Laurence (saint), 88 see also saints
La Vergne, Pierre Tressan de, 49, 59, 60, 61,
63, 64, 72, 73, 87, 103, 104, 105-6, 110,
118, 122
Lazarists see Congregation of the Mission
Lenet, Pierre, 28, 178n18
Le Bouchet-Valgrand (chteau), 103, 104,
106, 118, 121, 122, 124
Le Brun, Charles, 39
Le Maistre de Sacy, Louis-Isaac, 82, 84, 86,
104, 105
Le Roy, Guillaume, 36, 56, 60, 67, 83, 84,
119, 120
letters, 1619, 24
letter writing, 1619, 44, 54, 98
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Liancourt, Jeanne de Schomberg, duchesse de

biography, 10
chapel in Paris, 88
chapel at La Roche-Guyon, 913
charity at Liancourt, 112
collection of paintings, 956
connections with dvots, 27
conversion, 334
devotional reading, 7985
funeral, 98
involvement in the Fronde, 31
management of estates, 114
oratory in Paris, 745
portrait, 12
retreat at Liancourt, 10710
spiritual autobiography, 43, 44, 61, 712
Liancourt, Roger du Plessis, duc de, 10, 25,
52, 107, 129, 145n3
Liancourt, Henri-Roger du Plessis, 10
Liancourt, Jeanne-Charlotte du Plessis, 10,
34, 43, 84
Liancourt, chteau de, 23, 10610, 112, 114
Liancourt, Htel de, 55, 57, 74, 79, 80, 88,
95, 141n77
LIsle Adam (chteau), 10, 59, 103, 1067,
110, 112, 118, 121, 122, 124, 125
Longueville, Anne-Genevive de BourbonCond, duchesse de
biography, 8
cabinet at Couloummiers, 76
chapel in Paris, 89
charity, 111
connections to dvots, 267
conversion, 36, 446
friendship with Conti, 523
and Sabl, 535, 623
funeral, 97
involvement in the Fronde, 30
portrait, 9
receipt of the sacraments, 867
rejection of the court, 54, 66
retreat at Trie, 1013
spiritual autobiography, 379
Longueville, Henri II dOrlans, duc de, 8,
30, 60, 78, 111, 120
Longueville, Htel de, 89
Longueville, Jean-Louis Charles dOrlans,
duc de, 8

Longueville, Charles-Paris dOrlans, duc de,

8, 30, 52, 89, 153n37
Lorraine, Catherine de, 13, 27
Louis XIV, 1, 6, 7, 17, 39, 49, 68, 70, 90,
114, 121 - 22, 124, 127, 131
Louis XIII, 29, 37, 104
Louise de Marillac, 26, 27, 33
Louvre, 10, 29, 68, 72, 90, 131
Loyola, Ignatius, 39
Magdalene (saint), 37, 39, 40, 56, 73, 95 see
also saints
Maintenon, Madame de, 4, 5, 127, 128, 129
Marcel, Louis, 86
Marie de Medici, 10, 27, 39
Marie-Thrse, 54, 114
Marillac, Michel de, 27
Mars Gallicus, 65
Mary Salome (saint), 93 see also saints
Matthias (saint), 93 see also saints
Mazarin, 10, 29, 30, 31, 34, 65, 68, 123, 125
Maure, Anne Doni dAttichy, comtesse de
biography, 13
conversion, 35, 42
dvot connections, 27
friendship with Longueville, Sabl and
Brienne, 445, 478
Maure, Louis de Rochechouart, comte
de, 13, 25, 30, 42, 45
Mru, 103, 106, 118, 121
Mignard, Pierre, 39
Molire, 1, 24, 65, 120, 124
Molina, Luis de/Molinist, 3, 41, 58, 84, 111
Montaigne, Michel de, 51, 102
Montmorency, Charlotte-Marguerite de see
princesse de Cond
Montmorency-Bouteville, lizabethAnglique de, 23
Montpensier, Anne-Marie Louise dOrlans,
duchesse de, 30, 31, 118
More, Thomas, 51
Motteville, Franoise de Bertaut de, 43, 118
Mouchy, Pierre de, 57, 58, 116
music, 90, 102, 104, 118, 121
rigorist contempt for, 91, 120, 122

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Nicaise (saint), 913 see also Saints

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Nicole, Pierre, 61
novena, 64, 160n111
Oratorians, 57, 58, 83, 116, 117, 157n76 see
also Jean-Baptiste du Breuil, Pierre de
Mouchy, Joseph-Guy Toussaint Desmares and Jean-Franois Senault
oratory, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83,
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predestination, 3, 7, 42, 66, 67, 82, 98, 131

Prie-Dieu, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 88, 98, 101
Prosper (saint), 80 see also saints
Psalms, 59, 73, 84, 93, 122, 170n127

Rambouillet, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de, 24

Rambouillet, Julie dAngennes, mademoiselle de, 23
Rambouillet, Htel de, 23, 72
paintings (devotional art), 44, 73, 74, 75, 76, Rapin, Ren, 43, 83, 84, 129, 130
77, 87, 88, 90, 93, 94, 95, 96, 99
reading see devotional books
Pascal, Blaise, 61, 67, 70, 86, 94, 98, 131
relics, 88, 91-3, 94, 99, 122
crit sur la grce, 67
reliquaries, 74, 77, 88, 90, 92
Penses, 94
retreat, 10, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 35, 36, 36, 37,
Provincial Letters, 86, 94
40, 48, 61, 62 -4, 70, 73, 85, 87, 98,
Paul (saint), 43, 56 see also saints
1012, 10310, 112, 117, 11821,
Pavillon, Nicolas, (Bishop of Alet), 36, 58,
123, 124, 125, 126
69, 72, 99
Retz,
Cardinal de, 30, 31, 130, 144n39,
penance, 39, 56, 81, 85, 87 see also confession
144n41
penitence, 4, 33, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 46, 47,
50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 60, 61, 64, 72, 73, 77, Richelieu, Cardinal, 27, 28, 29, 30, 65
rigorism/rigorists
78, 80, 83, 93, 98, 105, 106, 123, 127,
definition of, 23
128, 129
in memoirs, 12930
Pience (saint), 913 see also saints
Roannez,
Artus Gouffier, duc de, 70
pious sociability, 4, 6, 20, 21, 55, 66, 113,
Roquette,
Gabriel de, (Bishop of Autun),
120, 121, 131
36, 53, 55, 56, 72, 89, 97, 99, 104, 105,
Plessis-Gungaud, Elisabeth de Choiseul,
118, 123, 125, 128, 129
madame du, 58, 130, 186n24
Rosary
beads, 77, 91, 94
Port-Royal, 2, 34, 78, 10, 13, 16, 20, 21,
24, 26, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 55, 57, 58,
61 -3, 65, 72, 81 -2, 86, 93, 94, 96, 103, Sabl, Madeleine de Souvr, marquise de
biography, 10
110, 111, 116, 117, 124, 127, 128, 129,
connections with dvots, 27
130, 131
conversion, 35, 40
and the dvots, 289
friendship with Longueville, 535, 623
and the Fronde, 31
funeral, 97
Formulary controversy, 68
involvement in the Fronde, 31
Peace of the Church, 6970
lodgings at Port-Royal, 16, 612
Port-Royal-des-Champs, 58, 60, 64, 97, 116
Portefeuilles Vallant, 16, 35
Poussart du Vigean, Marthe, 23, 28, 36, 44
relationship with Maure, 48, 49
Poussant du Vigean, Anne, 23, 28, 44
Poussart du Vigean, Anne de Neubourg, 28 Sabl, Philippe-mmanuel de Laval, marquis
de, 10
prayer, 25, 26, 38, 43, 44, 48, 54, 55, 57, 60,
64, 67, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 85, 92, saints, 23, 24, 25, 78, 83, 87, 92, 93
Saint Andr-des-Arts, 85, 97
97, 98, 119, 122, 123, 131
Saint-Cyran, Jean Duvergier de Hauranne,
Act of Contrition, 71
Miserere, 73
abb de, 28, 29, 34, 35, 37, 41, 42, 57,
Penitential Psalms, 7 see also Psalms
73, 83, 84
Prcieuses, 2, 24, 120
Saint-Cyran, Martin de Barcos, abb de, 67

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Saint-vremond, Charles de, 51

Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, 39, 85, 86, 97,
140n58, 148n47, 171n141, 171n143
Saint-Joseph, Mre Madeleine, 27
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 46,
107
Saint-Sulpice, 34, 48, 85, 97, 123, 147n36
Sales, Franois de, 25, 36, 51
Introduction to the Devout Life, 25
Philothea, 25
Salesian spirituality, 3, 26
salon, 2, 6, 16, 23, 24, 28, 44, 45, 47, 58, 59,
61, 62, 65, 131 see also chambre-bleue
Schomberg, Marie de Hautefort, duchesse
de, 49
semi-Pelagian controversy, 82
Senault, Jean-Franois, 83, 169n116
Sesmaisons, Pierre de, 35
Svign, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 7, 61, 118, 127, 128, 130
Singlin, Antoine, 35, 37, 38, 56-7, 60, 61, 68,
69, 72, 73, 85, 86, 119, 120
sociability see pious sociability
Society of Jesus see Jesuits
spiritual autobiography, 33, 37, 38, 39, 42,
43, 71, 86, 87, 114
spiritual directors, 6, 19, 20, 28, 35, 36, 37,
38, 5561, 65, 67, 68, 70, 73, 83, 85,
86, 94, 103, 104, 105, 118, 119

Teresa of vila, 55
Thais (saint), 40 see also saints
Thomas (apostle), 93 see also saints
Thomas Aquinas (saint) 58, see also saints
Trie (chteau), 1013, 104, 106, 115, 116,
117, 118, 121, 124
Trouillas, tienne de, 63, 78, 117
Val-de-Grce, 26, 63, 159n105
Vallire, Louise de la, 39
Versailles, 17, 107, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128
see also Court
Vertus, Catherine-Franoise de BretagneAvaugour, Mademoiselle de, 56, 59, 63,
67, 69, 101, 102, 115, 116, 117, 129,
156n66
Vincent de Paul, 26, 27, 29, 33, 112, 113
visitation, 35, 36, 37, 63, 75, 86
Voisin, Joseph de, 59, 78
Voiture, Vincent, 24
Voragine, Jacobus de, 23, 93
Vouet, Simon, 39

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Wladyslaw IV, King of Poland, 13

worldliness (mondanit), 6, 16, 20, 24, 25,
30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 45, 47, 54, 59, 60, 63,
65, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 82, 96, 102, 103,
106, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123, 125, 131
Zamet, Sbastien, 28