Abbe Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rance etait le grand reformateur des Cisterciens de la observance stricte - OCSO - les trappistes. A cote de sa conversion courageuse dans son propre conduite de vie de, ses nombreuses publications verbales et ecrites traitent la foi, la vie des religieux et des questions theologiques. Il touche aux cotes les plus internes des relations vis-a-vis de Dieu. On lui croit volontairement a cause du changement dans sa vie personnelle de l'etape de l'homme de vie riche au moine ascetique avant tous les yeux. Les Trappistes - cent annees plus tard - ont survecu...

As a side product of our work to familiarize Abbe de Rance to the German speaking, we ran into this english book, which is out of print. It also contains an evaluation of his main work "De la Saintete et les Devoirs....." This is a reissue and the German version will also be avalilable soon by the translator and editor Jochen Michels. Read what the author has to say in his Foreword: WHEN I FIRST BEGAN to study Rance, my concern was primarily historical, and the nature of my research into archive material so specialised that my first book (A.J.de Rance, Oxford, 1974) was mainly addressed to...