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Title

The travails of conscience : the Arnauld family and the Ancien régime / Alexander Sedgwick.

Author

Sedgwick, Alexander, 1930-

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1998.

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Description

x, 297 p. : geneal. tables; 24 cm.

Summary

The Arnauld family rose to prominence at the end of the sixteenth century by attaching themselves to the king. Their power and influence depended upon absolute loyalty and obedience to the sovereign whose own power they sought to enhance. Dictates of conscience, however, brought all that to an end and put them in conflict with both king and pope. The dramatic appeal of this book is underscored by a tumultuous period of French history which coincides with and punctuates the Arnauld family's struggle with the world. We see how this extraordinary family reacted to momentous political and religious developments, as well as the ways in which individual members, by means of their own convictions, helped shape the history of their time.

Series Statement

Harvard historical studies ; 128

Uniform Title

Harvard historical studies v. 128.

Alternative Title

Arnauld family and the Ancien régime

Subject

• Arnold family
• Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey) > History
• 1562-1598
• Jansenists > France > Political activity
• Despotism > France > Religious aspects
• Religion and politics > France > History
• Fronde
• Royalists > France > Biography
• France > Genealogy
• France > History > Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Genealogy
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Genealogy of the Arnauld Family, Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Early Generations -- 3. Angelique the Reformer -- 4. The Conversion of a Family: The Women -- 5. The Reformation of a Family: The Solitaires -- 6. Robert Arnauld d'Andilly: The Patriarch -- 7. Le Grand Arnauld and the Origins of Jansenism -- 8. The Arnauld Family during the Fronde -- 9. The Confrontation -- 10. Pomponne: The Rise and Fall of a Minister -- 11. Toward the Destruction of Port-Royal -- 12. The Marquis's Children: Jansenists in Spite of Themselves -- 13. The Arnaulds in History.

ISBN

0674905679

LCCN

^^^97042556^

OCLC

• 38096855
• SCSB-12373251

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library