Note 90 — Chapter I · 1619 to 1635.

See the Vie de la Mère Madeleine de Saint-Joseph, religieuse Carmélite déchaussée, by a priest of the Oratoire (Father Senault): Paris, 1655, in-4ᵒ. There is a second edition, of 1670, augmented. The Carmelites still have the head of their venerable mother. It is powerful and large. A portrait of her, preserved by the convent, exhibits in her face great strength of character. It has been many times engraved.