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Hope Mirrlees. Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists
Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PART I
CHAPTER I. THE DINNER AT MADAME PILOU’S
CHAPTER II. A PARTIAL CONFESSION
CHAPTER III. A SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER IV. THE SIN OF NARCISSUS
CHAPTER V. AN INVITATION
CHAPTER VI. THE GRECIAN PROTOTYPE
CHAPTER VII. THE MERCHANTS OF DAMASCUS AND DAN
CHAPTER VIII ‘RITE DE PASSAGE’
CHAPTER IX. AT THE HÔTEL DE RAMBOUILLET
CHAPTER X. AFTERWARDS
CHAPTER XI. REBUILDING THE HOUSE OF CARDS
PART II
CHAPTER XII. THE FÊTE-DIEU
CHAPTER XIII. ROBERT PILOU’S SCREEN
CHAPTER XIV. A DEMONSTRATION IN FAITH
CHAPTER XV. MOLOCH
CHAPTER XVI. A VISIT TO THE ABBAYE OF PORT-ROYAL
CHAPTER XVII ‘HYLAS, THE MOCKING SHEPHERD’
CHAPTER XVIII. A DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XIX. THE PLEASURES OF DESPAIR
CHAPTER XX. FRESH HOPE
PART III
CHAPTER XXI ‘WHAT IS CARTESIANISM?’
CHAPTER XXII. BEES-WAX
CHAPTER XXIII. MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDÉRY’S SATURDAY
CHAPTER XXIV. SELF-IMPOSED SLAVERY
CHAPTER XXV. THE SYMMETRY OF THE COMIC MUSE
CHAPTER XXVI. BERTHE’S STORY
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CHRISTIAN VENUS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ASCENT OF MOUNT CARMEL
CHAPTER XXIX. THE BODY OF THE DRAGON
CHAPTER XXX. A JAR
CHAPTER XXXI. THE END OF THE ‘ROMAN’
CHAPTER XXXII ‘UN CADEAU’
CHAPTER XXXIII. FACE TO FACE WITH FACTS
CHAPTER XXXIV. OUT INTO THE VOID
EPILOGUE. THE RAPE TO THE LOVE OF INVISIBLE THINGS
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Hope Mirrlees
Published by Good Press, 2021
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‘Now, then, Monsieur Jacques,’ went on Madame Pilou, thoroughly enjoying herself. ‘You are a learned young man, and sustained your thesis in philosophy at the University, do you hold it can be so ordered that one person can get another into Paradise—in short, that one can be pious by proxy?’
‘Madame Pilou!’ piped Robert plaintively, flapping his arms as though they had been wings, then he crossed himself and pulled his face back into its usual expression of stolidity.
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