The Duchesse de Langeais
The Duchesse de Langeais
by Honore de Balzac
THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS
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In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true.
Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Europe for that matter, was eit ...