02491cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000310011324500220014426400510016630000470021733600260026433700260029033800360031650000310035250801200038352014700050353400540197365300370202785600510206485600430211599900190215876608UtSlPG20260610134755.0mcr n260607r20251909utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afr2iso639-1 4aBX1 aDimnet, Ernest,d1866-195410aFigures de moines 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-08-01  aLaurent Vogel (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)  a"Figures de moines" by Ernest Dimnet is a collection of essays and travel sketches written in the early 20th century. It offers intimate portraits of monastic life and places—English Benedictines in Douai, Trappists, and Pyrenean abbeys—blending memoir, history, and spiritual observation. Dimnet’s narrator moves between cities, cloisters, and landscapes, lingering on ritual, architecture, and character. Readers should expect reflective prose, vivid atmosphere, and a cultured, gently nostalgic voice.  The opening of the book follows the author’s memories from Cambrai to Douai, where his early love of English letters leads to a fascination with the English Benedictines: their secluded college, Pugin’s chapel, solemn Gregorian vespers, a humane and demanding educational ethos, and finally the blow of expulsion under anticlerical laws. It then shifts to a quiet visit at La Trappe, where a sparse meal and a long, delicate conversation with an elderly hospitaller reveal theological anxieties, love of language, and the human texture of cloistered life, before a brief tour of cloister, dormitory, brewery, and cemetery. The narrative next turns to the Roussillon: train and coach into the Tet valley, the Catalan cadence of speech, the fortified charm of Villefranche (its church, streets, and a failed 17th‑century plot), and the small, beautiful Cadi valley running toward Vernet and the Canigou. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cParis: Perrin et Cie, 1909  aMonasticism and religious orders4 uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=onpBAAAAYAAJ40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76608  c117333d117333