It was in August 1627 that Jean-Ambroise Duvergier de Hauranne, abbot of Saint-Cyran (1581-1643), wrote Le Cœur nouveau for his protege Léon Bouthillier, the young count of Chavigny, future Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Cardinal Richelieu. "A capital work", writes the academic and novelist Laurence Plazenet in the first modern edition she gave of this "exercise for a person engaged in the world and in marriage, newly converted to God".
A brilliant masterpiece of Grand Siècle piety, The New Heart is a celebration of the “first age of grace” which gives the advantage to the love of God dear to Saint Augustine over the autonomy of exalted human free will. by the Jesuits. Beyond what has been called "Jansenism" with an obvious intention to harm, this beautiful text is part of the tradition of the French school of spirituality, that of François de Sales, Cardinal de Bérulle and by Vincent de Paul. At the time of the composition of the Heart
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