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- Title
L'érémitisme en Nouvelle-France et la vocation singulière de Toussaint Cartier au XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècle.
- Authors
La Charité, Claude
- Abstract
In the eighteenth century, hermetism was a marginal phenomenon for the Catholic Church, which favoured the missionary orders. The case of Toussaint Cartier, who lived on the island of St. Barnabé off the coast of Rimouski from 1728 until his death in 1767, might lead us to infer that New France was more tolerant of this type of vocation. Now, such was manifestly not the case, as is obvious from the testimony of the marquis de Montcalm, the condemnation of hermetism by Pope Benedict XIV, the case of the hermit of Trois-Pistoles in the early eighteenth century, and provisions regarding hermits in the old civil law. All these points of view shed new light on the enigmatic and problematic vocation of Toussaint Cartier for the institutions of his time.
- Subjects
CARTER, Toussaint; HERMETISM; BENEDICT XIV, Pope, 1675-1758; HERMITS; HISTORY of civil law; MARQUIS de Montcalm, Louis-Joseph; CANADIAN history to 1763; NEW France; HISTORY
- Publication
Historical Studies, 2013, Vol 79, p5
- ISSN
1193-1981
- Publication type
Article