Bossuet as Seen Through His Correspondence
Abstract
Biographers seek eagerly for the words of their heroes, not merely the formal statements of public occasions, but the casual utterances of personal incidents, through which the fullness of the heart speaks. With perhaps even greater accuracy, the letters a man writes record the interests and concerns, the cares and anxieties, the aspirations and ideals, the motives and means that make his life what it is. The aim of the modern biographer is to portray a human being, to let us see the how and the why as well as what a character has accomplished, to animate the works he has left with the personality that produced them. Biography today, is one of the most popular forms of our literature, and as the emphasis on human details has increased, the search and study of correspondence has been pursued with renewed interest.
Subject Area
Philosophy|Theology|Clergy
Recommended Citation
Heffel, Mary Agnes, "Bossuet as Seen Through His Correspondence" (1946). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28508701.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28508701
