Autobiography of Madame Guyon
Madame Guyon's theological work addressing love and Christian living.
50 Chapters
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER 1: There were omissions of importance in the former narration of my life.
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CHAPTER 2: I was born on April 18, 1648. My parents, particularly my father, was
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CHAPTER 3: My father who loved me tenderly and seeing how little my education was
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CHAPTER 4: After about eight months my father took me home. My mother kept me more
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CHAPTER 5: No sooner was my father returned home, than he became violently ill. My
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CHAPTER 6: Afterward we came to Paris where my vanity increased. No course was
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CHAPTER 7: During the first year I was still vain. I sometimes lied to excuse
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CHAPTER 8: After long languishing, at length I regained my former health. About
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CHAPTER 9: Such was the prayer that was given me at once, far above ecstasies,
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CHAPTER 10: I wrote an account of my wonderful change, in point of happiness, to
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CHAPTER 11: My senses (as I have described) were continually mortified, and under
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CHAPTER 12: The treatment of my husband and mother-in-law, however rigorous and
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CHAPTER 13: I had a secret desire given me from that time to be wholly devoted to
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CHAPTER 14: My husband enjoying some intermission of his almost continual ailments,
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CHAPTER 15: On my arrival at home I found my husband taken with the gout, and his
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CHAPTER 16: My maid became every day more haughty. Seeing that her scoldings and
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CHAPTER 17: We went into the country where I committed many faults. I thought I
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CHAPTER 18: About eight or nine months after my recovery from the smallpox, Father
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CHAPTER 19: To resume my history, the smallpox had so much hurt one of my eyes,
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CHAPTER 20: A lady of rank whom I sometimes visited, took a particular liking to
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CHAPTER 21: About this time I fell into a state of total privation which lasted
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CHAPTER 22: As my husband drew near his end, his distempers had no intermission. No
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CHAPTER 23: Being now a widow my crosses, which one would have thought should have
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CHAPTER 24: The Lord took from me all the sensibility which I had for the
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CHAPTER 25: The first religious person that God made use of to draw me to Himself,
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CHAPTER 26: One day during my husband's lifetime, laden with sorrow, not knowing
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CHAPTER 27: On that happy Magdalene's day my soul was perfectly delivered from all
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CHAPTER 28: I was obliged to go to Paris about some business. Having entered into a
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CHAPTER 29: While providence on the one hand, appointed my forsaking all things, it
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CHAPTER 1: I went off in a strange renunciation, and in great simplicity, scarcely
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CHAPTER 2: Our Lord took pity on the lamentable condition of my daughter, and so
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CHAPTER 3: As soon as it was known in France that I was gone there was a general
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CHAPTER 4: I would willingly suppress what I am now about to write if anything of
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CHAPTER 5: My near relations did not signify any eager desire for my return. The
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CHAPTER 6: He went directly to the Bishop of Geneva, who till then had manifested
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CHAPTER 7: After Father La Combe was gone the persecution raised against me became
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CHAPTER 8: My soul was in a state of entire resignation and very great content, in
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CHAPTER 9: Being as I have said with the Ursulines at Tonon, after having spoken
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CHAPTER 10: My daughter had the smallpox. They sent for a physician from Geneva,
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CHAPTER 11: After Father La Combe returned from Rome, well approved, and furnished
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CHAPTER 12: I had at that time so ardent a desire for the perfection of Father La
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CHAPTER 13: I then went off from the Ursulines and they sought for a house for me
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CHAPTER 14: One night in a dream our Lord showed me, that He would also purify the
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CHAPTER 15: Among so great a number of good souls, on whom our Lord wrought much by
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CHAPTER 16: The physician of whom I have spoken, was disposed to lay open his heart
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CHAPTER 17: A poor girl of very great simplicity, who earned her livelihood by her
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CHAPTER 18: After these adventures and others which it would be tedious to recite,
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CHAPTER 19: Scarcely had I arrived at Paris when I readily discovered the black
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CHAPTER 20: On January 29, 1688, I went to St. Mary's. There they let me know I
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CHAPTER 21: At this time I had my first acquaintance with the Bishop of Meaux. I