Do not abandon your religion on the ground that her yoke is hard." Jansenius and his followers, on the other hand, fought uncompromisingly with the licentious spirit of the time, maintaining the austerest dogmas and denouncing any compromise or condescension.

And their doctrine had a wonderful success, and penetrated everywhere.

Few of the great literary men of the reign of Louis XIV.

escaped it.

Its influence can be traced in the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld and the Caracteres of La Bruyere.