Jeanne de Cambry

Jeanne was born in Douai on 15 November 1581. Her father was a city councillor of Tournai and her mother, Louise de Guyon, was daughter of Ferry de Guyon.[1] In 1604 she took the habit in the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Nicolas des Prés in Tournai.[1] In 1619 she transferred to Notre Dame de Sion, also in Tournai, but after two years there the bishop, Maximilien Villain, appointed her prioress of Menin hospital, with a brief to reform discipline in the community.[1] She obtained permission to found a new order, the Ladies of the Presentation, with a stricter rule.[1] This was established in Lille on 25 November 1623, with the foundress taking the name Jeanne-Marie de la Présentation. She died in Lille on 19 July 1639.[1]

• Petit exercice pour pouvoir acquérir l'amour de Dieu (Tournai, 1620)
• Traicté de la ruine de l'amour propre et bâtiment de l'amour divin (Tournai, 1627; Paris 1645)[2]
  • The manuscript of the English translation by Agnes More was published as The Building of Divine Love in an edition by Dorothy Latz in 1992.
• Le flambeau mystique ou adresse des âmes pieuses es secrets et cachez sentiers de la vie intérieure (Tournai, 1631)
• Traité de la réforme du mariage (Tournai, 1655)
• Traité de l'excellence de la solitude (Tournai, 1656)[3]
• Lamentation de l'âme captive dans son corps mortel (Tournai, 1656)

Her collected works were printed in Tournai in 1665 by the Widow of Adrien Quinqué.