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100 1 _aDimnet, Ernest,
_d1866-1954
245 1 0 _aFigures de moines
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-01
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Perrin et Cie, 1909
653 _aMonasticism and religious orders
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=onpBAAAAYAAJ
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76608
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