Project Gutenberg 2025-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 419 Dimnet, Ernest 1866 1954 Figures de moines $aParis :$bPerrin et Cie, $c1909. Laurent Vogel (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) "Figures de moines" by Ernest Dimnet is a collection of essays and travel sketches written in the early 20th century. It offers intimate portraits of monastic life and places—English Benedictines in Douai, Trappists, and Pyrenean abbeys—blending memoir, history, and spiritual observation. Dimnet’s narrator moves between cities, cloisters, and landscapes, lingering on ritual, architecture, and character. Readers should expect reflective prose, vivid atmosphere, and a cultured, gently nostalgic voice. The opening of the book follows the author’s memories from Cambrai to Douai, where his early love of English letters leads to a fascination with the English Benedictines: their secluded college, Pugin’s chapel, solemn Gregorian vespers, a humane and demanding educational ethos, and finally the blow of expulsion under anticlerical laws. It then shifts to a quiet visit at La Trappe, where a sparse meal and a long, delicate conversation with an elderly hospitaller reveal theological anxieties, love of language, and the human texture of cloistered life, before a brief tour of cloister, dormitory, brewery, and cemetery. The narrative next turns to the Roussillon: train and coach into the Tet valley, the Catalan cadence of speech, the fortified charm of Villefranche (its church, streets, and a failed 17th‑century plot), and the small, beautiful Cadi valley running toward Vernet and the Canigou. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://books.google.com/books?id=onpBAAAAYAAJ 20250202130233dimnet 1909 FR Reading ease score: 74.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr Monasticism and religious orders BX Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Travel Writing Category: French Literature Category: Religion/Spirituality 340958 2025-08-01T11:01:33.133955 text/html 316708 2025-08-01T10:19:45 text/html 290545 2025-08-01T11:01:47.328953 application/epub+zip 292212 2025-08-01T11:01:39.652922 application/epub+zip 236772 2025-08-01T11:01:35.440011 application/epub+zip 479025 2025-08-01T11:01:54.541886 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 461008 2025-08-01T11:01:46.959962 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 318553 2025-08-01T11:01:32.726047 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 298760 2025-08-01T10:19:45 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 3847 2025-08-01T11:01:54.682855 application/rdf+xml 11266 2025-08-01T11:01:39.336922 image/jpeg 2228 2025-08-01T11:01:39.241952 image/jpeg 246629 2025-08-01T11:01:33.165012 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia