Sermons choisis
by Louis Bourdaloue, edited by Louis Dimier
Paperback (Published)
(April 2021)
ISBN: 9782812416781
Price: $20.00
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Bourdaloue’s sermons have gone down in history for their rhetorical dexterity as much as for their author’s declamatory art, capable of keeping his audience’s attention by the sheer force of his speech. This edition offers twenty sermons representative of the art of the preacher and the spirituality of his time.
- By (author) Louis Bourdaloue
- Edited by Louis Dimier
Review - French Les sermons de Bourdaloue sont passes a la posterite tant pour leur habilete rhetorique que pour l'art declamatoire de leur auteur. Le Grand Pan , comme aimait a le surnommer madame de Sevigne, etait capable de maintenir longtemps l'attention de son auditoire par la seule force de son verbe. La rigueur de ses analyses, la precision de ses portraits et sa fine connaissance du coeur humain expliquent le succes qu'il rencontra durant le dernier quart du XVIIe siecle, notamment a la cour de Louis XIV. Observateur attentif de ses contemporains, ses critiques sans concession s'inscrivent dans la lignee des grands moralistes tels La Rochefoucauld. La presente edition propose vingt sermons representatifs de l'art du predicateur jesuite et de la spiritualite de son temps.
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