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Souza, Evergton Sales. "Du jansénisme français au jansénisme portugais : l'empire portugais et la réforme de son Église (vers 1640 vers 1790)." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040028.
Full textThis thesis seeks to understand the principal characteristics of Portuguese Jansenism. Since this Jansenism is strongly influenced by regalismo, we will analyse the ways in which the relations between Church and Empire were envisioned and put into practice by Portuguese lay and ecclesiastical authorities in the period ranging from the Restoration (1640-1688) to the reign of José I (1750-1777). .
Michel, Marie-José. "La société janséniste parisienne (1640-1730)." Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010587.
Full textThe approach is based on an attempt to understand how french society was progressively "jansenisee" during the "ancien regime". The geographical framework is paris and its surroundings. 1640 and 1730 mark the beginning and the end of the study : from the influence of Saint-Cyran and jansen in France to the demise of the movement made inevitable by an accumulation of official condemnations. The importance and duration of this movement have been assessed using parochial archives, memoires, political pamphlets, satirical drawings and lists of "appelants". The jansenists at that time showed a new path to God, based on an individual "conversion" implying a spiritual development based on suspicion of the world and a quest for the absolute nature of god. This work gave rise to various passions and polemics, the defence of the jansenists themselves, the cutting criticism of the jesuits, then to the various reactions of philosophers, writers and the church over a long period. Jansenism in paris and france only became the subject of historical studies in the 1930s. "jansenisation" in paris spread over two distinct stages : the first from 1640 to 1709 springing from some outstanding individuals such as Saint-Cyran, Mother Angélique Arnauld, and the major spiritual leaders of the movement. With means adapted to the society of the time they understook a widereaching "jansenisation" of the disappointed elite. The movement reaches a peak between 1709 and 1730 based on a great number of jansenized clergy who knuckled down to the task of working at the parish level on adults and children : around 1730 two thirds of the population were "jansenized". This sucess was due to the quality of the mission which was adapted to the fears of the times and more inspiring than absolute monarchism
Dubé, Pauline. "Hennepin à Utrecht, un ultime combat, édition critique de La morale pratique du jansénisme, ou, Appel comme d'abus à notre souverain seigneur le pape Innocent XII interjetté par le R.P. Louis Hennepin, missionaire récollect, notaire apostolique & chapelain de son altesse électorale de Bavière." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25233.pdf.
Full textBretz, Michèle. "De Port-Royal au jansénisme à travers les Relations de captivité." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCD004.
Full textFrom Port-Royal to Jansenism through the captivity accounts’ (the ‘Relations de Captivité’) analyses the revolt of the Port-Royal nuns. Supported by the Grand Arnauld and the port-royalist network they refused to sign the formulary which condemned Jansenius’ augustinian theology. They dared oppose Louis XIV and the Pope, who relied on the Jesuits. The nuns describe their revolt in their ‘Relations de Captivité’, prison memoirs, which are both private and collective reports. We present here the first critical edition of those accounts. Our thesis examines the various episodes of the formulary case and the grounds for the nuns’ resistance – which served the Jansenists’ interest in the XVIIIth century (the abbé d’Etemare among others) when fighting against the Bull Unigenitus. The Jansenists devised an important historiography, as did Racine, the first historian of the nuns. They set up the nuns as myth and martyrs to their cause. The ‘Relations de Captivité’ herald the XVIIIth century Jansenism, the arguments of which can be noted in the nuns’ reports. Later on the nuns’ revolt aroused the interest of historians and writers, in France as well as abroad. Sainte-Beuve, Reuchlin, and Charles Beard devoted extensive studies to the subject. Montherlant, Julien Green, Charles Bobin were touched by the poetic streak of the accounts. There is another innovative element to it : the Port-Royal nuns are a landmark in the history of women in so far as they dared assert and justify themselves by writing their own story
Misono, Keisuke. "Ecrire contre le jansénisme au XVIIe siècle : Léonard de Marandé polémiste vulgarisateur." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CLF20004.
Full textGuittienne-Mürger, Valérie. "Jansénisme et libéralisme : les Nouvelles ecclésiastiques de Jean-Louis Rondeau (1806-1827)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100036.
Full textThe matter of this work is the manuscript scholarly edition of the Nouvelles écclésiastiques pour le XIXe siècle, that still remains unpublished. It was written by the former oratorian Jean-Louis Rondeau: a juror priest, the abbé Grégoire secretary and member of the Saint-Séverin parish from 1801 till his death in 1832. This text is willing to be the continuation of the Nouvelles Ecclésiastiques from the XVIII century, an immeasurably rich periodical paper published by the jansenist movement. More than a diary, this is an account that takes the form of a partisan chronicle about the ecclesiastical affairs, a huge kaleidoscope reflecting interests and convictions from the one who patiently, from Mexico to Constantinople, Naples to London, Saint-Petersburg to Madrid, Paris to Rome, has scrutinised during years a world in mutation. During two decades, the author, with a jansenist look, has sifted out the events and writings of his time. He has assembled information, reading notes, press articles and hearsays with the ambition of following the European and Worldwide history under the rarely studied outlook of the global religious history. Thus he delivers a passionate evocation on the early XIX century through a jansenist and a clearly liberal reading of the religious polemics of his time
Guillemin, Thomas. "Isaac Papin (1657-1709) Itinéraire d’un humaniste réformé, de l’École de Saumur au jansénisme." Thesis, Angers, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ANGE0080.
Full textTheologian of the Grand Siècle, minor of the Republic of Letters, Isaac Papin (1657-1709) was born Calvinist. He belongs to the so-called theological school “École de Saumur” : spiritual son of pioneering theologian Claude Pajon (his uncle), he adopts his theories on grace and, as Spinoza reader from 1680, he develops an original design of tolerance during a boom period on this issue in Protestant thought. At the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Papin joins the Refuge : he is then close to Letters’ citizens such as Jacques Lenfant, Jean Le Clercand Pierre Bayle. He first moves to England where he is ordained priest of the Anglican Church. Then he goes to the United Provinces and to the Holy Empire, where he tries to settle as a pastor of a Walloon Church. His innovative identity triggers opposition from the Orthodox Pierre Jurieu (Pajon’s former enemy) that prevents him from reaching his goal. He decides to convert and returns to France in 1690, where he becomes a Catholic under the authority of Bossuet. Until then nomadic Huguenot of the Republic of Letters, Papin turns into a sedentary Catholic in his hometown, Blois.He becomes one of the actors of the anti-Protestant controversy and approaches the Jansenism thanks to a friend who is also a converted Calvinist pastor. By combining social history of theological and religious networks and history of ideas and controversies, this intellectual biography traces the particular path of a theologian converted of the Grand Siècle, from reformed humanism of Saumur to Jansenism, between Nicole and Quesnel
Maire, Catherine. "De la cause de Dieu à la cause de la Nation : le jansénisme au XVIIIe siècle." Paris, EHESS, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995EHES0039.
Full textThe thesis tries to identify the specificity of the hansenist movement in the XVIIIth century viewing in all its course, from the Unigenitus Bull in 1713 until the civilian constitution of the clergy in 1790, through the episode of the "convulsions" and parliamentary battles of the second half of the century. The leading thread of this story, the fundamental element which gives it unity is constituted by figurism. Figurism is a method of exegesis and theology of history the inspiration of which can be found at the root of all expressions and transformations of the movement. The thesis is organised in three books which correspond to the three key phases of the study. The first book is an analysis of the rebirth both doctrinal and organisational of the jansenist party caused by the Unigenitus Bull, particularly under the form of a clandestine bookshop. The second replaces the emerging of the movement of the convulsionaries from the angle of the figurist acculturation of the people of the faithful. The third book is an attempt, finally, to elucidate the enigma constituted by the political transfiguration of jansenism within the parliamentary battle after the crisis of the refusals of the sacraments. The first part in this process is hold by the figurist barrister and partisan of the convulsions Louis-Adrien La Paige, of whom we establish the omnipresent activity of "éminence grise". But figurist filiation does not stop there : it goes on until french revolution, where it can be seen at work during the debate on the civilian constitution of the clergy as much as in the attempt of rebuilding the constitutional church under the Directoire It is through it that jansenism has been able to shift from the defence of the "cause of God" to the defence of the "cause of the nation"
Lyon-Caen, Nicolas. ""Marchands de miracles" : la bourgeoisie janséniste parisienne au XVIIIe siècle." Paris 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA010528.
Full textBlot, Béatrice. "Un corps dans tous ses « états » : « La sœur de Sainte Brigide », religieuse et convulsionnaire de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Paris (1741-1764)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040101.
Full textHysteries, visionaries, zealot, shammers, simpletons or even sadomasochists are a few words or phrases among others which were or still are used by those in authority, the historians, the theologists, the philosophers including doctors to qualify the 18th century people who miraculously recovered and the Jansenist Convulsionaries from Paris. Unearthed with thousands of documents related to this phenomenum, the compendium of speeches, letters and Sister Brigitte’s visions which come along with her spiritual advisor the oratorian Father Michel Pinel enable us to get to the heart of the convulsionary imagination and to develop many items which used to be left heart or little considered due to narrow investigations. Bodies, gestures, voices give these men and women the opportunity to be accepted in a world seems to wonder from the truth, Their Truth. Reexamined by same subjects which so far had often been left out by historians, this disconcerting and fascinating period of time is part of an eventful history, to the extent it may lose its deepest meanings; this moment gives a real boost to a better understanding of that century which can be restricted, far from it, to the Age of the Enlightenment or “raison triomphante”
Blot, Béatrice. "Un corps dans tous ses « états » : « La sœur de Sainte Brigide », religieuse et convulsionnaire de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Paris (1741-1764)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040101.
Full textHysteries, visionaries, zealot, shammers, simpletons or even sadomasochists are a few words or phrases among others which were or still are used by those in authority, the historians, the theologists, the philosophers including doctors to qualify the 18th century people who miraculously recovered and the Jansenist Convulsionaries from Paris. Unearthed with thousands of documents related to this phenomenum, the compendium of speeches, letters and Sister Brigitte’s visions which come along with her spiritual advisor the oratorian Father Michel Pinel enable us to get to the heart of the convulsionary imagination and to develop many items which used to be left heart or little considered due to narrow investigations. Bodies, gestures, voices give these men and women the opportunity to be accepted in a world seems to wonder from the truth, Their Truth. Reexamined by same subjects which so far had often been left out by historians, this disconcerting and fascinating period of time is part of an eventful history, to the extent it may lose its deepest meanings; this moment gives a real boost to a better understanding of that century which can be restricted, far from it, to the Age of the Enlightenment or “raison triomphante”
Catalano, Chiara. "Philosophia mater haereticorum et errorum : Philosophies et philosophes dans l'Augustinus de Cornelius Jansénius (1585-1638)." Paris, EPHE, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EPHE5005.
Full textIn the third chapter of Liber Prooemialis of the second volume of Augustinus (1640), Cornelius Jansenius (1585-1638) writes that philosophy has been in the past mater haereticorum and it is in the present mater errorum. This claim, whose source is Tertullian (Adversus Hermogenem VIII), animates all jansenian criticism against philosophy. Moving from this claim, I address Jansenius' criticism against pagan and human philosophy as inspirer of the ancient heresies (in particular the Pelagian) as well as of modern Scholastic theology too (i. E. Jesuit one). Accordingly, I analyze Jansenius’ attack against Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) and his presumed stoicism (which, according to Jansensius, would have been drawn on Julian of Aeclanum's pelagian errors), as well as against Gabriel Vásquez (1549-1604) and his aristotelianism. Jansenius’ attack is also addressed against another Jesuit, François Garasse (1585-1631). Jansensius’ friend Jean Duvergier de Hauranne (1581-1643) had already fought Garasse in the Somme des fautes et faussetés capitales contenues en la Somme théologique du Père François Garasse (Paris, Par Ioseph Boüillerot, 1626), written in response to Garasse’s La somme théologique des vérités capitales de la religion chréstienne (Paris, Chez Sebastien Chappelet, 1625). Is Jansenius another Augustine who tried to fight against new heresies of the modern era and especially against their philosophy? This is the image that I tried to reconstruct through the Augustinus
Gosselin, Rodière Simon. "Le sérieux du rire : la comédie polémique et les convulsionnaires de Saint-Médard." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6512.
Full textYgaunin, Jean. "Un authentique poète latin à l'aube du règne de Louis XIV : le P. Rapin S. J. : auteur des Hortorum libri IV." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2003.
Full textTome I. The environment : Tours ; collège de Clermont. Biography : the youth, the novice, the professor. Following the success of "Hortuorum libri IV rev. Father Rapin and the Hupper Classes. Sources of the poem : Antiquity, 16 th and 17th centuries. Imitation of the Latin poets. Didactic poetry. Versification, stylistics and rhetoric. Destiny of the work. Conclusion. Index. Tome II. Hortorum libri IV : the Latin text and its French translation. Dedicatory epistle. Foreword for the learned reader. Poem : 1. Flowers. 2. Treees. 3. Water. 4. The orchard. Prefatory note. Printing licence. Glossary of ihe names of flowers, trees and shrubs, of the technical terms in book III ; of fruity-trees ; of historical, geographical and mythological elements. Ancient authors. Index
Natan, Stéphane. "Les Pensées de Pascal : d'un projet apologétique à un texte poétique." Lyon 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003LYO31010.
Full textGraule, Ginette. "Parcours janséniste européen de Fray Servando Teresa de Mier et nouveau statut donné à l'image guadeloupéenne." Perpignan, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PERP0273.
Full textOn december 12th, 1794, in the collegiate church of our lady of guadeloupe in mexico,fray servando teresa de mier, a dominican friar and theorist of the mexican independence, delivered a sermon which questioned the evangelisation of the new world by the spanish. Ecclesiastical proceedings were instituted against him and the monk was sentenced to exile in spain where he was supposed to undergo a ten year reclusion in a convent of his own religious community. Henceforth, on the occasion of repeated escapes, he was to come into contact with spanish, french and italian jansenists who prompted him to elaborate theses leading to the religious emancipation of mexico, a process which fitted into the more general pattern towards independence. At the same time, the sermon preached in the collegiate made use of a completely renewed religious imagery ,thus establishing new foundations for catholicism in the new world
Guilbaud, Juliette. ""À Paris, chez Guillaume Desprez. . . " : le livre janséniste et ses réseaux aux XVII et XVIII siècles." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE4045.
Full textThe Jansenist movement has been primarily, until now, the subject of analyses dominated by issues concerning literary history, limited in national historiographical aspects. The thesis focuses on a new approach related to book history. It aims to demonstrate that the partisans of Jansenism, in spite of their social diversity, can be regarded as a party, utilising printed matter as a basis for cohesion and propaganda. The organisation of this party is, above all, strategic. This is because it relies on a network of influential relations in competing powerful and controversial. The political and religious authorities understood its potential and realised that it was necessary to control the spread of its ideas. The Jansenists, with the help of their printers and book sellers, ensured efficacy of the publication and diffusion of their ideas. The Jansenists, with the help of their printers and book sellers, ensured efficacy of the publication and diffusion of their ideas. This thesis demonstrates precisely how Jansenism used printed matter to influence public opinion and how it can be understood in relation to the modern phenomena of mass media and mass circulation. The role consequently allowed the Jansenist movement to spread throughout Europe, particularly in the German-speaking territories and in Central Europe, in the seventeenth and especially the eighteenth century. Also during this period, the Jansenists made use of innovations in the technology of printed matter to futher perpetuate the diffusion of their literature
Szobody, Paul Edward. "Lorsque la bête pense comme un ange : la possibilité d'une dogmatique pascalienne." Strasbourg, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011STRA1036.
Full textIt is a curious thing to note to what extent the historical phenomenon of Jansenism and the religious community of Port-Royal is able to fascinate historians, people of letters and the philosophers, but there is a strange absence there of interested theologians. In fact, there are few scholarly studies on the dogmatic thought of Port-Royal theologians. Through their thought, profoundly rooted in the Augustinian polemical tradition of the University of Leuven aimed against the new scholastic of Molinism and the new moral theology of the Jesuit casuists, Jansenist theologians in France adeptly put their polemical efforts in the practical arena of the Church. As a result, the Jansenists shook up the religious circles of 17th and 18th century French culture. Briefly stated, Jansenism was a churchly and doctrinal movement, principally in France, that is best understood as an attempted reform within the heart of the Roman counter-reform, and whose goal was to restore the ancient quality of penitence by way of a theological and spiritual culture expressly Augustinian. The Jansenists identified two problems, both caused (in their estimation) by the absence in the Church of authentic conversion operated by grace. Their movement proposed in general a practical response as well as a dogmatic one: 1) renew the life of the Church through means of penitential discipline, one modeled after that of the ancient Church; and 2) deepen, by way of theology, the understanding of original sin and its present affects in order to define the exact nature of the work of grace necessary for the conversion of the sinner in his/her postlapsarian state. In so doing, the Jansenist writers produced a vast and rich corpus of literature that touches the breadth of theological science. Furthermore, since the last part of the twentieth century, scholars like L. Ceyssens, J. Orcibal, L. Lafuma, J. Mesnard and P. Sellier, among others, have carried out research that helps to eliminate, or at least to diminish, the older characterizations of Jansenism. Thus, their works have opened new vistas for theological research that is more objective and respectful of the Augustinian authenticity of this movement’s doctrine. . .
Van, Kempen Muriel. "Les réfugiés de l'Unigenitus et l'Eglise de Hollande (1725-1745 )." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100005.
Full textIn 1724, the chapter of Utrecht consecrated its own bishop, thus breaking up for good with Rome. And strikingly enough, at the same time in France, jansenists were increasingly persecuted, especially in congregations. The Dutch clergy of Utrecht has for long maintained close links with French jansenism circles so that it became naturally and quickly the best place to shelter these oppressed monks. The various episodes, including the genesis of this makeshift church, shall retain our attention and be the main topic of our study. French jansenists soon relied upon this new independent church which was expected to provide a good example for Rome to follow. Yet, pretty soon, all their dreams and hopes vanished and melted away as they faced reality. Division, added to several difficulties arose on different levels, be it in the Dutch Church, in communities, in France or in the United Provinces, and consequently aggravated the situation. Those latter hindrances threatened not only the existence and the future of the refuge but also compromised the Utrecht Church. However, the episcopate of Meindaerts (1739-1767) brought about relief and comfort
Dubray, Jean. "Pascal et Baudelaire : étude philosophique et théologique d'une tradition janséniste." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040077.
Full textA comparative study of two authors as dissimilar as Pascal and Baudelaire is a daring undertaking, coming up, as it does, against apparently insuperable obstacles. Could one say then that this endeavour is simply a matter of an unwarranted exercise in style or of an appealing yet fragile paradox ? Notwithstanding, in the view of many commentators, it seems that subtle links unite the two literary universes, beyond manifest differences. They present, indeed, real affinities, that are drawn from a common fund of traditionaly Jansenist ideas and develop similar themes centred on the wretchedness and the grandeur of Man, on the importance of the Fall, on the failures which flow from original sin in Man’s search for happiness, justice and truth, on the limits of reason and the desperation of the human condition which the absence of God deprives of meaning. Certainly, these similar basic premises do in no way entail in the two authors identical existential choices, but they unquestionably shed light on their style and their reasoning. If the real life experience of faith and the plenitude of grace illumine Pascal’s writings, the faint outlines and the indisputable undertones of a diffuse hope, beyond sin, revolt and death, emerge from Baudelaire’s work. Without claiming to bring a definitive answer to these delicate questions, the present essay has the modest ambition of rekindling interest in a passionate, yet unsettling encounter between two emblematic writers, whose styles, concerns and centuries render them so distant from, yet so close to each other
Andurand, Olivier. "Roma autem locuta : les évêques de France face à l’Unigenitus : ecclésiologie, pastorale et politique dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100124.
Full textThe advent of the Unigenitus bull into the kingdom of France marked the outset of the 18th century. Bishops were in charge of enforcing this Roman decree while protecting a maximum of liberties for the Gallican Church at the same time. How did the episcopate react in front of the upheaval brought by this new Constitution? Schooled in moderation, the prelates were Gallican so they unreservedly complied with the king’s wishes, since their careers depended on the Monarch’s good will. Sees, promotions, cardinalships, everything was hung on his decisions. The Bull raised numerous ecclesiological difficulties as it laid down the rule of papal infallibility. On this occasion, the bishops of France revealed their deeply Gallican and moderate characters. In order to protect their prerogatives they wished to keep as much away from Roman novelties as from Richerist excesses. To direct their dioceses they favoured a penitential rigour that was characterised by the defense of contrition and a distance from sacramental laxity in the Holy Communion. They also stood for liturgical clarification to make worship more understandable to their congregations. Yet every pastoral decision had to be carefully measured so that it would never conflict with the choice of the King and his government. Even though Rome had spoken, the case was not closed. The controversy was carried on for about fifty years. The French episcopate was Gallican and composed of men who united remarkable intellectual and administrative abilities. Thus the Unigenitus bull provided an opportunity to question the part played by bishops in the Church. The 1789 revolutionists would remember that
Alemany-Dessaint, Véronique. "Survivances jansénistes aux XIXe et XXe siècles à travers les archives de Perpétue de Marsac, vicomtesse d'Aurelle de Paladines, dernière Solitaire de Port-Royal (1845-1932)." Paris 13, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA131033.
Full textThe stepping stone of this thesis are the documents found in the archives of the library of a French aristocratic family’s castle near Toulouse. This library is mostly entirely dedicated to religious literature specially through a gallico-jansenist anthology. Reference is also made to the correspondence of one of the late relative of this family who has been the last resident and “Solitaire” at Port-Royal (died in 1932). These documents, which until now were remained unknown, are proving that Jansenism has remained in the XIXth and early XXth centuries, led by a group of “Jansenistgoers” which found its roots and motivation in the rejuvenation of the haydays of the Jansenist’s doctrine. A new era started caused by the new interest in supra natural phenomenons which, based on the academical and moral heritage of Jansenism, claimed to go back to roots for a strict obedience of the rules of Port-Royal. At the turn of the XXth century, this Jansenist’s doctrine of strong obedience to the rules gathered together a wide range of dedicated personalities; nowithstanding all of a different background they were all animated with the same desire, through their love for truth, to prove their strong obedience to Port-Royal not only as a guide for their social behaviours but also as an enlightment for their spirits
Carlotti, François-Xavier. "Le troisième département de l'Oratoire de Jésus (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) : un réseau congréganiste dans la France du Midi." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30054.
Full textThe Oratoire of Jesus was founded on 11th of november 1611 by cardinalPierre de Bérulle in Paris. It is a secular congregation whose members do notmake any vows.In Provence, the Oratoire is unique because of its three roots.At the beginning it was influenced by the christian Doctrine of Jean-BaptisteRomillon who was its primary school’s teacher in Provence, then at thebeginning of the XVIIth century it became aligned with the Oratorio of Neri inItaly, and finally in 1619 it merged with the French Bérulle’s Oratoire.Oratoire of Provence is connected with the regions of Languedoc,Gascogne and Guyenne. It formes a separate administrative division, the thirddepartment of the Oratoire in France. The Oratoire’s houses consist in an activeand multi-shaped network of human interaction, material exchanges andspiritual flux. The Oratoire is an organized hierarchy with a centralized head inParis which sends visitors to departments, and nominates the houses superiors.This community of men forms a stable solidarity network strengthened bythe same cultural, geographical and social background. The southern members,priests and brothers engaged into the apostolate and management of thecolleges, brothers serving at mass and talented in many skills, all of them, fromthe time they are taken on to the end of their life, act within the limit of theirdepartment.The Oratoire’s rapid success in preaching and « sanctifying the clergy » wassupported by their bishops and favoured by the town councilors who eventuallyentrusted them with teaching the young people.At the end of the great XVIIth century their remarkable expansion stopped.Untill the 1750’s the congregation in its vast majority, adhered to the Jansenistfaith, in its strictest theological form, particularly in the South of France. Becauseof persecution new membership registered a decrease and a lot ofestablishments closed down.At the eve of the French Revolution, the Oratoire’s structure was deeplymodified : they had become reconciled with the Church, younger members hadjoined it and the whole congregation had turned to teaching activities
Gouault, Thierry. "Le "collège-séminaire" de l'Oratoire du Mans sous l'Ancien Régime (1599-1792)." Thesis, Le Mans, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LEMA3001/document.
Full textLe Mans owned one of the most Oratorian schools in France after the one of Juilly. The Oratorians settled in Le Mans in 1624 under the episcopal authority of Mgr Charles Beaumanoir de Lavardin, wich implemented one of the most essentials aspects of the Tridentine Reform : raise youths ! This thesis aims at grasping the numerous difficulties met by seniors, prefects and regents until 1792. The issues bore upon the novelty of their teachings, upon their relationship with Jansenism, upon their spiritual Christ-centered practices and the financial hardships hich triggered in some people’s minds the willingness to make the institution part of the city. The school was a relay of Port-Royal with the « Grand Arnauld » who instructed few years. The long period before the Revolution was affected by two theological affairs with came to blur the image of the Le Mans Institution. The civil Constitution of the clergy, in 1790, marked a definitive breaking off between the « Sacedotem » teachers and the non-religious teachers
Lamotte, Stéphane. "L'affaire Girard-Cadière : un fait divers à l'épreuve du temps, de 1728 à nos jours." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30053/document.
Full textIn 1728, JBG, a 48-year-old Jesuit in Toulon, was accused of abusing one of his penitents, Catherine Cadière, a 9-year-old with a tendency for mysical fervour. Though commonplace at the time, the event grew into a public scandal. The case was brought to court in Aix-en-Provence in 1731, in the context of an age-old struggle for power opposing Jesuits, Jansenists and philosophers. Public opinion was fiercely divided : polygraphs, satirists, letter-writers all reported and commented on this eventful case. Our work intends to explore the numerous written or graphic documents published in the 18th century : poems, prints, letters. All in all, much ado about nothing since both JBG and CC were discharged. The controversy, owever, was not over : it weakened the Jesuit influence and showed the determination of its enemies. Shortly thereafter, the candals of Damiens' assassination attempt and Lavalette's bankruptcy confirmed the strength of the anti-Jesuit movement. The tory was revived -by Michelet among others- throughout the 19th and the 20th centuries, always rewritten, with the addition of fictitious elements, for polemic purposes. Our study deals with the connection between history and literature and the ever-fluctuating recollection of the event
Maury, Serge. "Histoire d'un groupe convulsionnaire tardif à la fin du XVIIIe siècle : 'les Fareinistes'." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO30028/document.
Full textThis thesis deals with the history of a group of convulsionnary Jeansenists of the end of the eighteenth century. This sectarian group forms in the village of Fareins (in the area which will later become the département of Ain) in the 1870's, around the priest François Bonjour, who crucified a prophetess of his "sect" in 1787 and went on trial under the Revolution. Eventually released, François Bonjour set himself in Paris, where a convulsionary Jeansenist prophetess, called “sister Élisée", started a preaching which would go on until 1805 (the year of the arresting of François Bonjour and his circle). The history of this convultionary sect has already been studied by several historians, but our approch distinguishes itself by a deliberate anthropological and sociological point of view. When dealing with the local events in Fareins, we deemed relevant to do an ethnographic study of the villager’s struggles as well as an anthropological analysis of rural prophetism and of devilish possession. The radicalization of the Fareinists which followed the French Revolution allows us to take up the problem of revolutionary millenarianism. The imposing corpus of the prophecies and “visions” of sister Élisée is then analyzed under several lines. First, the prophetess’ speeches are a weapon she uses in the struggles for power against her opponents. Secondly, we reconstructed the « culture » of this group (in the anthropological sense of the concept) and showed how the biblical esotericism specific to this environment works. Eventually, the spectacular transes of sister Élisée were studied in the light of the anthropological works on the facts of possession
Wachenheim, Pierre. "Art et politique, langage pictural et sédition dans l'estampe sous le règne de Louis XV." Paris 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA010623.
Full textIssartel, Thierry. "Politique, érudition et religion au grand siècle : autour de Pierre de Marca (1594-1662)." Pau, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PAUU1012.
Full textAiello, Marta. "La "verità plurale" : itinerario spirituale di Gesualdo Bufalino, in dialogo coi Francesi." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LORR0292.
Full textThis thesis retraces the existential itinerary in search of the truth of the Sicilian writer G. Bufalino, with a particular focus on the filter of the French literature that, from an early age, constituted the privileged field of reference for his formation.It starts from the years ranging from childhood to the call to arms, therefore more or less from the period between 1930 and 1942. Formed as a teenager on French symbolists and especially on Baudelaire, the young Bufalino got an existential vision, tools rhetoricians, emotions, a mass of images, and more than anything else a vision of literature as the depositary of an indecipherable truth, an activity to be indefatigably dedicated to and spent on until it consecrates its existence to the cult of form. The second phase is "Bufalino and the French Catholic writers" and goes approximately from 1942, the year in which he was called to the front, until '50. In these years, Bufalino undertook a fruitful correspondence with the intellectual Angelo Romanò who, in turn engaged in religious travails, began it to many readings and in particular to that of French Catholic writers, among whom we have isolated Claudel, Mauriac , Bernanos, Cendrars who seemed to us more than others useful to observe a Bufalino in search of a truth of faith. The third phase of the spiritual life of Bufalino is “Bufalino and the French Existentialist writers” and begins roughly in the 50s and ends in 1981, the year of the publication of his first novel, ‘Diceria dell'untore’. It begins with an interest in the truth of reason and later with a marked preference in particular for the work of Albert Camus. The fourth and last phase is “Bufalino and the plural truth’ and begins immediately after 1981, and observes the final turning point of Bufalino's spiritual research until the end of his life, that is until 1996. Bufalino will definitively renounce both the metaphysical and the materialistic options, and he will entrust his sense question entirely to literary research, understood as a differently 'sacred' writing
Rideau, Gaël. "De la religion de tous à la religion de chacun. Les hommes face à l'église et à la religion à Orléans au XVIIIe siècle (1667-1791)." Orléans, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005ORLE1062.
Full textFrom curves of ordinations to the study of the religious stamp in the domestic space, a transition of the religious life in Orleans stands out. It expresses itself by a laicisation of the people's view upon the clergy. Collective devotions and parish-life still crucial, but they change. The parish carries an economical logic as much as a religious one. Nevertheless, in the same time, a thrust draws up. Testament illustrates an individual remaking with a movement of gestures and discourses to the family-life. The birth of a religious-domestic complex completes this associating pious objects, pictures and books. Jansenism and Enlightenment are crucial in this movement. In this way, they may be bound. Therefore, in the eighteenth century Orleans, the religion did not know a dechristianisation, but a secularisation, that is to say a passage of the vitality toward a more individual logic
Menand, Julie. "Le père jésuite François Garasse : un écrivain engagé du premier dix-septième siècle." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2128.
Full textFather François Garasse remains a jesuit writer of the first seventeenth century quite known and little studied, despite its abundant controversy production, published between 1614 and 1626.His work is deemed illegible, by the values it defends and the violence it deploys, by its length and lack of consistency, by its style, finally. However, works on libertinism led to interest in the figure of the libertine as he draws it in his Doctrine curieuse . Such studies invite to reconsider Father Garasse, which appears as the jesuit polemicist most read and most famous between 1617 and 1626, and as a successful preacher. His work, however, has not been studied yet in a whole. Father Garasse, who participates in all the quarrels of his time, is the subject to intermittent, piecemeal analysis. This project aims to reverse perspectives, focusing father Garasse, not in terms of libertinism or nascent Jansenism, but from his angle : Catholic Reformation and its fighting, Society of Jesus and its interests. His polemical work will be considered as a whole and for herself, in a double point of view, philosophical, theological and moral on one hand, and literary on the other hand ; the aim is to establish if there is a thought of Father Garasse, and to identify the ways in which it is stated. The link between his work, essentially polemical, and other works of his time will also be considered, whether adversarial or affiliation. This project aims to put into perspective the work of Father Garasse, to replace it in the polemic and rhetoric context of his time, in order to better identify his literary and philosophical aspect
Moulis, Philippe. "Le clergé paroissial du diocèse de Boulogne-sur-Mer." Artois, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008ARTO0005.
Full textHow did one become an assistant priest, then a parish priest in the diocese of Boulogne-sur-Mer between 1627 and 1789? The issue will be at the centre of this piece of research and will make it possible to study the lives of those men from their births to their deaths. The core role of priests –and particularly that of parish priests- within the parish community offers an insight into the spiritual, intellectual and economic aspects of life under the Ancient Regime. This study starts from the year 1627, when Victor Le Bouthillier was appointed Bishop of the diocese of Boulogne-sur-Mer. This prelate spurred the implementation of the Catholic Reformation in the diocese. The year 1789 marks the end of this study with the death of Bishop Partz de Pressy –a great reformer. The intersecting study of a large number of documents has dictated the division of this dissertation into three parts. The first section -Sacerdotal Education- looks at the formation of priests, their educational and school records from childhood to graduation from the Grand Seminary over the 1627-1789 period. The second part deals with the professional records of clerics and focuses on priesthood and the ordinations carried out in the diocese of Boulogne-sur-Mer; it is then devoted to the roles of clerics, the hierarchy and an analysis of the careers of the parish clergy. The third part, entitled Priesthood and material life, looks at the daily lives of the parish clergy. The histories of Jansenism and Antijansenism in the diocese of Boulogne-sur-Mer are also analysed in the three parts. The day-to-day existence of those men, through all the stages of their lives –from birth to death- will be examined
Breton, Jean-François. "Les représentations jansénistes au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0016/MQ38039.pdf.
Full textMalcor, Fabrice. "L'ascension du Cardinal de Fleury (1653-1726)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040012.
Full textThe ascent of the cardinal of Fleury describes the mechanisms which have driven the heir of an "average" family of financiers in Languedoc to become Louis XV’s Prime Minister in 1726. It is necessary to underline at first the whole rise of a linage which plunges its roots into the merchandise in the Lodévois for at least the XVIth century. The transition to the finance is made with the cardinal’s grandfather and continues with his father Jean and especially his uncle Pierre-Moses, trésorier de France at the bureau des finances of Montpellier. The latter favors the rise in Paris of the young André-Hercule who embraces from then the ecclesiastical career. The causes of the ascent are individual and are based on the set of the clienteles, with at first the cardinal of Bonsy, then the cardinal of Noailles who obtains from reluctant Louis XIV the bishop's siege of Fréjus ( in 1698 ) for his protégé. The continuation is more a matter of contingency but cannot be extracted from the religious context and, even there, the system of the clienteles. The designation as the private tutor of the future Louis XV, a few days before the death of the Great King, allows Fleury to make his comeback to the Court. The indisputable skill of Fleury allows him to take advantage of the politico-religious evolution led by the Regent who, after an initial phase of proximity with the opponents of the Unigenitus bull, soon gets loose from them. Fleury embodies a moderate support but firm. His closeness with the small king makes of him a major actor. The death of Dubois and of Philippe of Orléans leaves him alone in front of the duke of Bourbon (1723). Three years only will be enough for M. de Fréjus to eliminate the official Prime Minister
Mitrani, Véronique. "Bossuet et Port-Royal." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040064.
Full textJacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the preeminent preacher of his time, enjoys at the court of Louis the XIV, a prominent position, which enables him to work in favor of the Church unity. Port-Royal while defending a too rigorous doctrine toward the political and religious authorities of the time is bound to incur their anger. But in spite of this apparent opposition, this particular study aims to offer a variety of converging points between the Bishop of Meaux and Port-Royal, which are parts of the second half of the XVIIe century’s big controversies and work as a telltale to demonstrate that those « temporal » debates allow revealing two theologies denying their propinquity
Dobrova, Marina. "Le gallicanisme et la poésie liturgique. Un aspect du renouveau liturgique à l’époque moderne. Les proses dans les missels français (1675-1787)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040033.
Full textThe gallicanism and the liturgical poetry, what are the common points ? The gallicanism resulting of “les libertés de l’Église gallicane” was the reason of all the political and religious debates, attained their extreme points at the epoch. It was responsible for the liturgical revival in France that took place from the end of the XVIIth and during the XVIIIth century, including the chant. Its destructive impact on political and religious social foundations contradictorily played the positive role as it had spurred on the religious patriotic enthusiasm. At that time, the Church of France became the main agent to express the gallican doctrines advocating the historical and national past values. The gallicanism found its reply in the “néo-gallicanisme”, indefinite term, expressing naturally the nostalgia of the past. So, the gallicanism provoked the movement of return to the past rites, uses and feasts in the liturgical practice, codified at the time in the liturgical books named “néo-gallicans”. The independence regarding the roman Church tradition professed by the gallicanism and the jansenism authorized the entry of the new poetry in the diocesan liturgies in France. Only one aspect of the chant of modern proses shows to what extent the traditional rules of the roman liturgy were broken. The main character of the modern proses is their patriotic aspect demonstrating the feelings of pride for France. The modern liturgical proses had contributed to the solemn celebrations and, so, to more importance of the new liturgies in France
Malcor, Fabrice. "L'ascension du Cardinal de Fleury (1653-1726)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040012.
Full textThe ascent of the cardinal of Fleury describes the mechanisms which have driven the heir of an "average" family of financiers in Languedoc to become Louis XV’s Prime Minister in 1726. It is necessary to underline at first the whole rise of a linage which plunges its roots into the merchandise in the Lodévois for at least the XVIth century. The transition to the finance is made with the cardinal’s grandfather and continues with his father Jean and especially his uncle Pierre-Moses, trésorier de France at the bureau des finances of Montpellier. The latter favors the rise in Paris of the young André-Hercule who embraces from then the ecclesiastical career. The causes of the ascent are individual and are based on the set of the clienteles, with at first the cardinal of Bonsy, then the cardinal of Noailles who obtains from reluctant Louis XIV the bishop's siege of Fréjus ( in 1698 ) for his protégé. The continuation is more a matter of contingency but cannot be extracted from the religious context and, even there, the system of the clienteles. The designation as the private tutor of the future Louis XV, a few days before the death of the Great King, allows Fleury to make his comeback to the Court. The indisputable skill of Fleury allows him to take advantage of the politico-religious evolution led by the Regent who, after an initial phase of proximity with the opponents of the Unigenitus bull, soon gets loose from them. Fleury embodies a moderate support but firm. His closeness with the small king makes of him a major actor. The death of Dubois and of Philippe of Orléans leaves him alone in front of the duke of Bourbon (1723). Three years only will be enough for M. de Fréjus to eliminate the official Prime Minister
Di, Rosa Geneviève. "La pensée du religieux au siècle des Lumières : études sémiostylistiques d'oeuvres littéraires et picturales." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040158/document.
Full textThe importance of Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment is no longer to be proven, whether it be historically, philosophically ar artistically. The question is to make out if there exists a way of thinking Religion in the XVIIIth century, i.e. specific modes of weighing meanings which are related to the invisible, the supernatural or the divine. Rather than one idea in particular (happiness, nature, energy, anxiety), we are studying a connection, an articulate relation between man and what can be symbolized : how a given society assesses this connection to the supernatural, and through wich media. Our investigation favours essays, the production of a thinking which never adheres to the identity or the concept, but which is rather a swerve, a movement, which allows it to explore terra incognita ; the investigation also favours history painting, the genre in which iconography is by essence cosa mentale, a visual manifestation of the mediations of a thinking. The semiostylistical analysis of the works are orientated by two poles, the biblical intertextuality and the socio-theological praxis of the quarrel over the refusal of sacraments. These analysis allow to grasp the mutations of the biblical paradigm, the rationalist thinking and mimetic aesthetics while they make light on the epistemological obstacles, the resistance points, the skandalon. Thinking Religion in the XVIIIth century, between audacity and dismay, appears marked by the jansenist thinking of testimony, as well as a questionning of rationalist thinking in favour of a new philosophy of language
Lenain, Philippe. "Dom gabriel gerberon moine benedictin religieux de la congregation de saint-maur 1628-1711. Introduction a sa vie et a son oeuvre suivie d'un essai d'analyse doctrinale." Paris, EPHE, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997EPHE4009.
Full text1) a very detailed biography of the life of the benedictine monk dom gabriel gerberon (1628-1711) of the congregation de saint-maur. A contemporary of mabillon and editor of the opera of saint anselme, he was involved in the "jansenist" controversies concerning divine grace, and in 1682 he was obliged to flee the abbey of corbie in picardy. During his exile from france until 1703, he was the companion of arnauld and quesnel. He was arrested on the orders of philip v of spain and was handed over to the police of louis xiv and imprisoned successively at malines, amiens and vincennes. He was freed in 1710, and died a year later at saint-denis near paris. 2) a complete inventory of his works, including those whose attribution is doubtful and those which have been incorrectly attributed to him. A list of the pseudonyms used by him is given in the appendix, together with several hitherto unpublished documents and letters. 3) a doctrinal and philosophical analysis of the signature of the formulaire and the theology and ecclesiology of its author, as well as an analysis of the concept of "jansenism" itself
Dobrova, Marina. "Le gallicanisme et la poésie liturgique. Un aspect du renouveau liturgique à l’époque moderne. Les proses dans les missels français (1675-1787)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040033.
Full textThe gallicanism and the liturgical poetry, what are the common points ? The gallicanism resulting of “les libertés de l’Église gallicane” was the reason of all the political and religious debates, attained their extreme points at the epoch. It was responsible for the liturgical revival in France that took place from the end of the XVIIth and during the XVIIIth century, including the chant. Its destructive impact on political and religious social foundations contradictorily played the positive role as it had spurred on the religious patriotic enthusiasm. At that time, the Church of France became the main agent to express the gallican doctrines advocating the historical and national past values. The gallicanism found its reply in the “néo-gallicanisme”, indefinite term, expressing naturally the nostalgia of the past. So, the gallicanism provoked the movement of return to the past rites, uses and feasts in the liturgical practice, codified at the time in the liturgical books named “néo-gallicans”. The independence regarding the roman Church tradition professed by the gallicanism and the jansenism authorized the entry of the new poetry in the diocesan liturgies in France. Only one aspect of the chant of modern proses shows to what extent the traditional rules of the roman liturgy were broken. The main character of the modern proses is their patriotic aspect demonstrating the feelings of pride for France. The modern liturgical proses had contributed to the solemn celebrations and, so, to more importance of the new liturgies in France
Donetzkoff, Denis, and Claude Lancelot. "Claude Lancelot (1616-1695) : Mémoires touchant la vie de M. de Saint-Cyran : édition critique avec introduction, notes et annexes." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040059.
Full textFoehn, Melanie. "Samuel Beckett et les écrivains de Port-Royal." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00915119.
Full textHilaire, Sylvain. "Port-royal des champs, haut lieu de mémoire : étude des jardins et des paysages culturels." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCD073.
Full textThe study develops a global approach to the history of a Chief place of memory, Port-Royal des Champs, using the lens of the garden and the landscape as a heuristic key to re-read the history of Port-Royal and Jansenism, but also the stakes of classical modernity in the 17th and 18th centuries. The methodology crosses approaches in cultural history and environmental history, with a multidisciplinary approach of the notion of "Port-Royal Rosette". It first consists in observing the levels of religious interpretation, from biblical, monastic and Augustinian acculturations, to the Tridentine revival of the first 17th century, and their oscillations between the ascetic desert and the garden of paradise. Aesthetic, poetic and pictorial approaches are then deployed, with their primitivisms and naturalist temptations, through the search for traces of an original nature, without forgetting their technical translations into horticultural, botanical and agronomic knowledge. Finally, there are landscape and territorial dimensions, which mark the expression of a Versaillian counter-model incarnated in space. This landscape myth crossed the centuries, from the networks of the Republic of Letters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the interpretive waves of the Revolutionary period, the Romantic age until the middle of the twentieth century. The aim is to propose a global study of a "landscape figure of the Nation", its founding principles, its memory flows and ebb, and its long term processes of (de)sacralization and patrimonialization
Lagroix, Kronlund Suzanne. "Le débat entre le coeur et le devoir dans : La Princesse de Clèves." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-23926.
Full textThis work addresses the debate between heart and duty as well as the various influences that led to the famous question : Why doesn't the princess marry the Duke of Nemours when all barriers are removed ? All things considered, we cannot conclusively answer this enigma to which only Madame de La Fayette holds the key, therefore we focused on the influences that urged the princess to sacrifice her heart to her duty. The method of research used is the intellectual biography approach. It is apparent that the life of the author tinged the contents of her work and the soul of her heroine. We were also inspired by the sociological criticism method as to the influences and movements of this particular era. In order to simplify the collection and organization of this research, we combined the influences into three main categories : personal, internal and external. This study has shown that the characteristics in La Princesse de Clèves, mirror the society of the seventeenth century. Each presented influence forms the picture of a princess hiding, within herself, the secret of her renunciation of love.
Gauthier, Noëlle. "Les bénédictins de Saint-Michel de Saint-Mihiel de 1689 à 1790." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2117.
Full textThe Saint-Michel monastery of Saint-Mihiel was founded by the SaintDenis abbey, on the request of King Pépin the Younger, after 755 and before 772, on the forested heights of the right bank of the river Meuse, at about 30 km south of Verdun. It was reinstalled before 824 on the edge of the Meuse and aggregated to the Saint Benedict order, reorganized by Saint Benedict d’Aniane on the request of the emperor Louis the Pious.In 954, the monastery is given as a dowry to the daughter of Hugh the Great who marries the Duke of Haute-Lorraine Frederick 1st. They are the ancestors of the Dukes of Bar, who also became the Dukes of Lorraine in the 15th century. The abbey remains linked to the Barrois until 1766, which is the date of attachment of the two duchies to France.It is one of the important Benedictine abbeys of the two dukedoms. It is part of the province of Lorraine of the Benedictine congregation of Saint-Vanne, created in 1604, which comprises about fifty monasteries in Champagne, Lorraine and Franche-Comté.The 17th century is a difficult period for the Lorraine and Barrois, involved in the terrible Thirty Years war from 1631 to 1661. The dukedoms and the Saint-Mihiel abbey recover from their ruins and get prepared for an 18th century that one could predict as a material, intellectual and spiritual blooming. What seems to testify, for the abbey, are its buildings that one can still admire in the 21th century, and particularly its magnificent library refurnished around 1775 and which still comprises over 6 000 books having belonged to the Benedictines.The reality is more balanced and complex if one gets interested in these religious figures from 1689, culmination of their spiritual and intellectual blooming, until 1790, year of the withdrawal of the religious orders in France. We are lucky to have their testimonies, the most important being the one of their scholarly librarian, from 1717 to 1756, Dom Ildefonse Catelinot
Jouslin, Olivier. ""Rien ne nous plaît que le combat", Pascal et le dialogue polémique." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040170.
Full textThis PHd thesis analyses the whole of the public debates whether major or minor in which Blaise Pascal was involved. The study stresses the importance of the dialogical form used by Pascal and his contradictors whenever they launched into controversy. It describes how both Pascal and his adversaries acted and wrote polemically. Rather than confronting both sides, the author tries to show how polemics works, how it grows, settles and eventually how it affects the texts themselves. Polemic polarisation is analysed in many ways, which mirrors the polymorphic nature of the polemical genre and the numerous fields it is related to. First theoretical tools try to root out the polemical origins of the fields of controversy. It focuses on such subjects as the void, and the debates on grace as well as on the great seventeenth-century theological and moral questions which occasioned acrid public exchanges. This thesis also resorts to sociological approaches: it raises the issues of the readership and the social origins of the readers. Moreover it tries to assess how controversial the experimental form was by examining the scientific backgrounds in which scientific controversy developed. Third, the literary dimension of polemics is pointed out through the study of the pamphlets on the void circulating in the wordly circles, and through the semi-private letters the scientists were so eager to exchange. It also focuses on the pamphlet wars the jansenist community of the Port-Royal abbey would wage against the jesuits. The thesis lays particular emphasis on Pascal's main polemical text, the Provinciales, and on the whole and complete body of answers it triggered. It aims at defining how wide the readership of the Provinciales was. It moreover tries to show how deep the theoretical and historical consequences of the quarrel with the Jesuits were
Tanguay, Lucie. "Ouvrages jansénistes français mis à l'index romain : ouvrages condamnés entre la bulle cum occasione (1653) et la paix clémentine (1668)." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/11463.
Full textMICHEL, CHANTIN JEAN-PIERRE. "LES "Amis lyonnais de l'Oeuvre de la Vérité" : une permanence de Jansénistes convulsionnaires du dix-huitième siècle à nos jours." Lyon 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994LYO31011.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to follow the evolution, changes and adaptations, but also the lasting heritage of a late provincial group, which originated in convulsionary jansenism and developed both in crities such as lyons and saint-etienne (under the unfluence of clerics and laymen) and in rural parishes (under the influence of vicars). Its original trends reflect this diversity and meet the questions that assaulted the late eighteenth centuty believer. Revolutionary upheaval, the struggle against civil and religious authorities, the shock of the modern age, economic and social changes are the main landmarks of an eventful history that will lead the local "amis" onto various paths : opposition to the 1801 concordat, exacerbated jacobinism or immovable ultra-rovalism, the millenarian expectation of doomesday, reunion with protestant sects or the foundation of unorthodox movements outside the catholic church such as the fareiniste group. Wath has survive to this day of their unitial choice in its manifold aspect is the object of our study
Gérard, Aurélie. "Dom Calmet et l'abbaye de Senones : un milieu littéraire." Thesis, Nancy 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008NAN21021.
Full textDuring the Age of Enlightenment literary gatherings flourished in the form of cafés, clubs, salons, or of more institutionalized venues such as academies and learned societies which proliferated in number. Meanwhile the famous Congregations of Saint-Vanne and of Saint-Maur exhorted their religious to carry on the work of the illustrious monastic academies created in the previous century. This latter mission was particularly valued by Dom Augustin Calmet, a Benedictine from Lorraine. Calmet was renowned throught Europe for his monumental literary work, which approaches at once exegesis, history as well as curiosities, and for his positions and titles held in the Congregation of Saint-Vanne. His election on 9 July 1728 at the head of the rich and influential abbey of Senones, in the Vosges, allowed him to realize his ambitions. The monastery, which had already been opened to the world of letters by his predecessors, and by Dom Mathieu Petitdidier in particular, welcomed the erudite Benedictine. In this centre of spirituality Dom Calmet would develop all the activities peculiar to a literary milieu : writing, copy of texts, exchange and trade of books, management of the library, literary criticism, and connections with publishers. These literary activities, moreover, took part in the opening of the abbey on its surrounding world already favoured by its geographical and political position. The correspondence of Dom Calmet and of his nephew and coadjutor Dom Fangé attests to the influence of the Abbot of Senones on his religious or secular contemporaries in Lorraine, in France and in Europe, and to his relations with the Greats and the Academies. Dom Calmet's impact on the philosophers of the Enlightenment, and on Voltaire in particular, as well as his interest in the chief biblical controversies of his time, the supernatural and the history, transformed this "literary" milieu into an enlightened one deserving its century
Collombat, Michel. "Les bibliothèques des clercs séculiers du duché de savoie du XVIIIe siècle à 1860." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2079/document.
Full textThe aim of the following study is to tackle the notion of knowledge and culture among Savoie’s secular clergy, from the 18th century to 1860, when Savoie was annexed by France. The first part focuses on the circulation of clergymen’s books. It depicts the way books are used by scholars at the Collège Chappuisien of Annecy, then in seminaries and different universities, as well as for lectures or ecclesiastical retreats. Besides, books are bought, passed on to colleagues and laymen, as one can learn from the very few commonplace books left. One can read in wills how libraries, whose volumes have been inherited or purchased over the years, are , most of the time, subsequently transmitted to relatives that are men of the cloth too, or scattered to the benefit of bishops, vicars or different institutions, which tends to prove the existence of intellectual networks. Books can thus be said to connect the world of the dead to that of the living. The second part shows that they are also at the very heart of intellectual debates, which explains why their circulation was controlled by religious authorities. Books are thus central points of reflection over Protestantism, Jansenism, the Enlightenment, the 1792 revolutionary episode and eventually what is at stake in 19th century modernity. Savoie, as a catholic boarder, appears as some original basis in the maturing process of ideas as well as their circulation between the kingdom of Italy, France and Europe. The third part, based on a corpus of 18th century libraries mostly and 19th century legacies to Chambéry’s Grand Séminaire, offers a classification of readers, among whom various types of parish priests, canons and bishops. By confronting the different centers of interest related to theology and profane science, some clerical identities are taking shape, factors of cohesion and signs of intellectual curiosity appear, showing that to the believers, Savoie’s secular clergy both keeps and spreads a broader culture and that its members are in no way cut off from the evolutions of their time