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_aChateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, _d1768-1848 |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aWikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vie_de_Ranc%C3%A9 | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-01 | ||
| 508 | _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) | ||
| 520 | _a"Vie de Rancé" by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand is a religious biography written in the mid-19th century. It traces the life and conversion of Armand-Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé, the severe reformer of La Trappe, set against the glitter and turmoil of 17th‑century France. Drawing on earlier chronicles and the author’s meditative asides, it contrasts courtly salons and worldly ambition with monastic austerity to probe the moral drama of renunciation. Readers interested in spiritual history and vivid portraits of the ancien régime will find it compelling. The opening of this work begins with a dedication to the humble Abbé Séguin and brief prefaces in which the writer explains his motives and his late-life perspective. It then launches into Rancé’s early life through Don Pierre Le Nain: a prodigy favored by Richelieu, author of a youthful Anacreon, loaded with benefices, brilliant in studies, and moving among Bossuet, Retz, and the great salons during the Fronde. Long, incisive sketches of Hôtel de Rambouillet society, précieuses, Ninon de Lenclos, Madame de Sévigné, and others frame Rancé’s own worldliness—his hunting, finery, ambition, near-fatal accidents, a secret first Mass, and a deepening unease. The narrative also introduces his attachment to the duchess de Montbazon and, at the start of the second book, surveys the disputed story of his conversion—Larroque’s sensational tale of a shocking deathbed scene versus sober rebuttals by Saint‑Simon and Trappist biographers—ending with the clear sense that her death and his retreat to Veretz mark the first real break with the world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aRancé, Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de, 1626-1700 | ||
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