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  • Jansenism found its greatest stronghold at Port Royal (near Paris) where a group of highly-gifted laymen (known as Solitaires) and nuns built up on their heretical doctrines a gloomy but very influential system of education.

    Forerunners of the French Revolution. Part 2b de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Jansenism found its greatest stronghold at Port Royal (near Paris) where a group of highly-gifted laymen (known as Solitaires) and nuns built up on their heretical doctrines a gloomy but very influential system of education.

    Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • [10] "Le Grand Arnauld" (Antoine), one of the first and most influential of the celebrated "Solitaires" who established themselves at Port Royal, and one of the founders of the famous sect of

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • His stay there influenced considerably his character and his writings; and though he separated himself entirely from the "Solitaires" during the years of his brilliant career as poet and courtier, there remained always in his heart a latent tenderness for the quiet green valley of the Chevreuse, where he had passed all his years of adolescence, listening to the good Fathers, and imbibing their doctrines of the necessity of divine grace to complete the character.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • In 1642 the work was condemned by Pope Urban VIII as being tainted with Baianism: it was neverheless defended by the Solitaires of Port Royal-Antoine Arnauld, his sister angelique, Pascal, Nicole and St. Cyran i.e.

    Forerunners of the French Revolution. Part 2b de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • In 1642 the work was condemned by Pope Urban VIII as being tainted with Baianism: it was neverheless defended by the Solitaires of Port Royal-Antoine Arnauld, his sister angelique, Pascal, Nicole and St. Cyran i.e.

    Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • The other $10 went to my one and only impluse buy - a bag of Hershey's Almond Solitaires.

    While I was out... 2006

  • The other $10 went to my one and only impluse buy - a bag of Hershey's Almond Solitaires.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • Solitaires flashing blue flames blazed all over the cap, and the front was ornamented with a dragon in fine filigree work in red Malay gold set with diamonds.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Solitaires still have a community in the larger Pagan family, even if they choose not to come hang out all the time.

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

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