BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne (1627-1704). Autograph letter signed ('Bénigne de Meaux') to an unidentified correspondent (Madame d'Albert), Meaux, 3 June 1691 , saying that becuase of an ordination he can spend only Friday morning at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre and advising her on the question of the admission of outsiders (to the convent) on solemn occasions, approving the nomination of Madame de Goussault as prioress and saying that he has remembered her on recent Holy Days, 6 pages, 8vo . SAINT-EVREMOND, Charles de (1613-1703). Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent, n.p., 25 October n.y., declaring that he does not know how he can be suspected of having written something to the detriment of Père (?) Bonhomme, whom he admires, and denying all connection with the work, asking also for news of Mademoiselle de Lenclos, one page, 8vo . Bossuet was appointed bishop of Meaux in 1681. Madame d'Albert, one of his regular correspondents, was a nun at Jouarre. She had been educated at Port Royal and suspected of Jansenism. Bossuet, who had preached at her profession, referred to her as his 'première fille'. Saint-Evremond wrongly accused of impiety, and of the authorship of works which were not his, was one of the many lovers of Anne ('Ninon') de Lenclos.
BOSSUET, Jacques-Bénigne (1627-1704). Autograph letter signed ('Bénigne de Meaux') to an unidentified correspondent (Madame d'Albert), Meaux, 3 June 1691 , saying that becuase of an ordination he can spend only Friday morning at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre and advising her on the question of the admission of outsiders (to the convent) on solemn occasions, approving the nomination of Madame de Goussault as prioress and saying that he has remembered her on recent Holy Days, 6 pages, 8vo . SAINT-EVREMOND, Charles de (1613-1703). Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent, n.p., 25 October n.y., declaring that he does not know how he can be suspected of having written something to the detriment of Père (?) Bonhomme, whom he admires, and denying all connection with the work, asking also for news of Mademoiselle de Lenclos, one page, 8vo . Bossuet was appointed bishop of Meaux in 1681. Madame d'Albert, one of his regular correspondents, was a nun at Jouarre. She had been educated at Port Royal and suspected of Jansenism. Bossuet, who had preached at her profession, referred to her as his 'première fille'. Saint-Evremond wrongly accused of impiety, and of the authorship of works which were not his, was one of the many lovers of Anne ('Ninon') de Lenclos.
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