The Biliotheque de la Societe de Port-Royal
1979; Duke University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/286606
ISSN1527-5493
Autores Tópico(s)European Political History Analysis
ResumoThe present librarian of the Bibliotheque de la Societe de PortRoyal, Andre Gazier, is fond of describing a visit to his father, Augustin, the noted historian of by a canon of NotreDame. The canon asked to purchase books from this in order to burn them! For some, Jansenism remained an emotional issue until well into the twentieth century. Augustin himself refused to allow Jesuits to use the library, and he vehemently discouraged scholars from studying the eighteenth-century convulsionaries of Saint-Medard, who, he believed, had embarrassed the Disciples of Saint-Augustine. The Bibliotheque de la Societe de Port-Royal, sometimes referred to as the library of Jansenism, is located on the third floor of a decrepit building at 169 rue Saint-Jacques in Paris. Operated by a private organization, the Societe de Port-Royal (which also owns the ruins of Port-Royal des Champs), the contains unmatched holdings on Jansenism and on the religious history of seventeenthand eighteenth-century France. There is, unfortunately, no accurate way to determine the size of the library, but I would estimate perhaps sixty thousand volumes. One must bear in mind that this is not a in the hands of trained librarians, and therefore it is deficient in both professional help and bibliographical aids. Much of the is catalogued on hand-written fiches organized alphabetically by author and by subject. A fiche will direct the researcher to the appropriate room and book. Thus, one can easily locate books written by a particular seventeenthor eighteenth-century Jansenist. More difficulty occurs with the attempt to utilize either pamphlets or manuscripts. To take
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