Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717

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Name (Latin)
Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717
Other forms of name
Guion, Lady (Jean Marie), 1648-1717
Guion, madame (Jeanne Marie), 1648-1717
Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie, 1648-1717
Bouvières de La Motte Guyon, Jeanne-Marie, 1648-1717
De La Mothe Guion, Madame (Jeanne Marie Bouvier), 1648-1717
De La Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier, 1648-1717
Gion, de La Mot-, 1648-1717
Guion, Jeanne, Lady, 1648-1717
Guion, de La Mothe, Madame (Jeanne Marie Bouvier), 1648-1717
Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Mothe, 1648-1717
Guyon, Jeanne, 1648-1717
Guyon, Johanna Maria Bouviere von La Mothe, 1648-1717
Guyon, madame (Jeanne Marie), 1648-1717
La Mothe Guion, Madame de (Jeanne Marie Bouvier), 1648-1717
Mot-Gion, de La, 1648-1717
Mothe Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La, 1648-1717
Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La, 1648-1717
De La Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier
Bouvier de la Motte, Jeanne Marie, 1648-1717
Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Mothe
La Motte Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de, 1648-1717
Guion, Jeanne Marie, 1648-1717
Mothe Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La
Date of birth
1648-04-13
Date of death
1717-06-09
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 61540026
Wikidata: Q235098
Library of congress: n 81108294
Sources of Information
  • Coslet, D. G. Madame Jeanne Guyon, child of another world, 1984.
  • Her Poems, 1806:t.p. (Madame de La Mothe Guion)
  • BN(Guyon, Jeanne-Marie Bouvières de La Motte, Mme.)
  • Her Sämmtliche Werke in Bezug auf das innere Leben, 1836:surrogate t.p. (Johanna Maria Bouviere von la Mothe Guyon)
  • Correspondance, 2003- :v. 1, t.p. (Madame Guyon)
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Wikipedia description:

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (commonly Madame Guyon; 13 April 1648 – 9 June 1717) was a French mystic, spiritual writer, and lay teacher of prayer whose writings on inward prayer, abandonment to God, and pure love became one of the central subjects of the late seventeenth-century Quietist controversy in France. Her works, especially Moyen court et très facile de faire oraison and her biblical commentaries, circulated widely in manuscript and print. They influenced François Fénelon, archbishop of Cambrai, but drew the opposition of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Louis Antoine de Noailles, and other French ecclesiastical authorities. Guyon was never formally condemned as a heretic by name, but her writings and teachings stood behind the Articles of Issy in 1695, and her Moyen court was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1689. She was imprisoned several times, including in the Bastille, and spent her later years at Blois. Although her teaching remained suspect in Catholic France, her writings were widely read in Protestant circles, especially among Pietists, Quakers, Methodists, Holiness writers, and other traditions of inward religion. Guyon’s spirituality also belonged to a wider transnational literature of interior prayer that included earlier Spanish and New Spanish contemplatives. Among the figures read by Guyon’s circle was Gregorio López, the Spanish hermit of New Spain, whose radically simplified prayer and reputation as a modern Desert Father helped shape later Catholic and Protestant traditions of inward devotion.

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