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Informationen zum Autor Nancy Carol James received her PhD from the University of Virginia and wrote her dissertation on Madame Guyon. She serves as priest associate at St. John's! Lafayette Square! Washington! D.C. Sharon D. Voros! professor of Spanish and French at the United States Naval Academy! holds a PhD from Columbia University in New York City. Her current scholarship focuses on seventeenth-century women writers in Spain and France. Klappentext Madame Guyon's translated prison autobiography provides a compelling account of her eight years of incarceration from 1695 to 1703. The courage she shows sheds light on her most difficult years! including interrogation practices. This text is a testimony to her perseverance in those times of stress and humiliation. Zusammenfassung Madame Guyon's translated prison autobiography provides a compelling account of her eight years of incarceration from 1695 to 1703. The courage she shows sheds light on her most difficult years! including interrogation practices. This text is a testimony to her perseverance in those times of stress and humiliation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Translator's Notes Chapter One. Arrest and Imprisonment in Vincennes Chapter Two. Behind Closed Doors in Vaugirard Chapter Three. New Trials in Vaugirard Chapter Four. The Letter from the Priest of Saint-Sulpice Chapter Five. The Letter from Father La Combe Chapter Six. In the Bastille: In the Shadow of a Trial Chapter Seven. In the Bastille: The Final Battle Epilogue Bibliography Index
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Translator¿s Notes
Chapter One. Arrest and Imprisonment in Vincennes
Chapter Two. Behind Closed Doors in Vaugirard
Chapter Three. New Trials in Vaugirard
Chapter Four. The Letter from the Priest of Saint-Sulpice
Chapter Five. The Letter from Father La Combe
Chapter Six. In the Bastille: In the Shadow of a Trial
Chapter Seven. In the Bastille: The Final Battle
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
