…they called for the Jesuits, and among whom was this remarkable, very, very able man, but very unstable, psychologically unstable man, Surin, who came from Bordeaux, and he undertook not merely to dispossess the prioress but also to raise her to the highest…

…is interesting only if you take the two sides together if you take the the case of Grandier, and then the case of Surin. Between them, the two episodes describe the religious life on every level, from the most horrible to the most sublime. I mean, the…

…in a single volume. Plenty of French people have written about Grandier, and in recent times plenty of people have written about Surin, but nobody has thought fit to put the two cases together in a single volume and illustrate this fantastic spectrum of…