The elevation of his mind, combined with strong common sense, caused him to see through all the veils of the mysticism.

Madame Guyon had submitted her books to him; he disapproved of them, at first quietly, then formally, after a thorough examination in conjunction with two other doctors.

Madame Guyon retired to a monastery of Meaux; she soon returned to Paris, and her believers rallied round her.

Bossuet, in his anger, no longer held his hand.

Madame Guyon was shut up first at Vincennes, and then in the Bastille; she remained seven years in prison, and ended by retiring to near Blois, where she died in 1717, still absorbed in her holy and vague reveries, praying no more inasmuch as she possessed God, "a submissive daughter, however, of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church, having and desiring to admit no other opinion but its," as she says in her will.