Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Preface xi
1 The Background 1
2 The Quietist Controversy 26
3 Sermons and Panegyrics 51
4 Paving the Way: Divisions and Subdivisions in Jacques Biroat 88
5 Moving Forward: Commonplaces and Curiosities in Jean-François Senault, Bernard Planchette, Claude Texier, and Jean-Louis de Fromentières 109
6 The Bernard of the Strict Observance: Armand-Jean de Rancé 147
7 Bernard Returns to Metz: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 185
8 Touching, Moving, Converting: The Unction of François Fénelon 236
9 Bernard in Battle: The Anti-Quietist Polemic of Charles de La Rue 271
10 The Flames Die Down: The Revised Panegyric of Charles de La Rue 320
11 Bernard the Mystic: Henri-Marie Boudon 354
12 Panegyrical Plagiarism? Claude Lion, François Ogier, and Esprit Fléchier 397
13 Last of the Fathers and the Angel of the Lord: Antoine Anselme and Louis-Bénigne Bourru 446
14 Bernard the Second Samuel: The Psychological Acuity of Jean-Baptiste Massillon 485
15 Conclusion: The Saint in the Sun 530
Appendix 1 Technical Terms 539
Appendix 2 Personalities 549
Bibliography 568
Index of Names and Places 574