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Little Schools of Port-Royal

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founding by Duvergier de Hauranne

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    In education: The teaching congregations

    …a briefer career, were the Little Schools of Port-Royal. Their founder was Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, better known as the abbot of Saint-Cyran, who was one of France’s chief advocates of Jansenism, a movement opposed to Jesuitry and Scholasticism and favouring bold reforms of the church and a turn to…

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