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Title: France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: David Longfellow
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2001
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Volume: 43Issue: 3Page: 611

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Title: Sacred music, sacred time.(Report)
Author: David P. Goldman
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Date: November 1, 2009
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Chapters: The Birth of Venus, Rokeby Venus, Primavera, Venus and Mars, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Sacred and Profane Love, Venus of Urbino, Sleeping Venus, New Chambers, Ohio Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio), Venus Anadyomene, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus, Venus and Cupid With a Satyr, Venus and Adonis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez (15991660), the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Completed between 1647 and 1651, and probably painted during the artist's visit to Italy, the work depicts the goddess Venus in a sensual pose, lying on a bed and looking into a mirror held by the Roman god of physical love, her son Cupid. The painting is in the National Gallery, London. Numerous works, from the ancient to the baroque, have been cited as sources of inspiration for Velázquez. The nude Venuses of the Italian painters, such as Giorgione's Sleeping Venus (c. 1510) and Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538), were the main precedents. In this work, Velázquez combined two established poses for Venus: recumbent on a couch or a bed, and gazing at her reflection in a mirror. In a number of ways the painting represents a pictorial departure, through its central use of a mirror, and because it shows the body of Venus turned away from the observer of the painting. The Rokeby Venus is the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. Nudes were extremely rare in seventeenth-century Spanish art, which was policed actively by members of the Spanish Inquisition. Despite this, nudes by foreign artists were keenly collected by the court circle, and this painting was hung in the houses of Spanish courtiers until 1813, when it was...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1622411 ... Read more

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In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacr-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacr-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monument both to French Catholicism and to French national identity. Jonas masterfully reconstructs the history of the devotion responsible for the basilica, beginning with the apparition of the Sacred Heart to Marguerite Marie Alacoque in the seventeenth century, through the French Revolution and its aftermath, to the construction of the monumental church that has loomed over Paris since the end of the nineteenth century.

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The Dream of a Sacred Civilisation
A note of transparency at the outset: many a review here at Amazon assumes - often unconsciously - the non-faith perspective so peculiar to our modern age. This review does not. What follows was mainly written for a traditional Catholic website, and assumes a perspective of faith. Some may find it biased. But why should one feel compelled to assume the secular bias of contemporary academia - if one does not, in fact, participate in it?

Now, the author has given this volume a striking subtitle: "An Epic tale for Modern Times" ... It is a mysterious subtitle indeed and one which Jonas never explains.

Now the 'epic' part is clear - this is the little told story (at least in English) of the Catholic resistance over centuries to the ideals of the French Revolution. Yes, a grand sweeping saga of the vast numbers of French who had no wish to be "liberated" from the ancien régime of Church, Monarch and nobility.

It is the story of the French who preferred piety to rationalism, who preferred the "rights of God" to the "rights of man", who preferred the vision of a Sacred Culture united to God through the Church to a "Godless republic" that must have appeared by turns, soulless, meaningless, dry, devoid of riches - not to say, demonic and evil.

This then, is the story of two Frances. The France of the Revolution, which aspired to liberate the poor, oppressed and starving, that aspired to "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity" - through massacre.(For when one includes those who died in the counter-revolutionary wars, the numbers by some estimates, run into hundreds of thousands).

This is the story of how the France of the Republic succeeded over centuries in crushing the Other France - whose advocates called themselves La Vraie France -the True France.

And Jonas' book makes lucidly clear the emergence of the bitter conflict between the two during the Revolution. Tout le Monde has heard of the murder of the King Louis XVI and the Queen Marie Antionette. "Let them eat cake ..."

Jonas brings to the fore the many other lesser-known factors which tore French society in half: the Republic's expropriation of Church property to fund the State;the often bloody attempt to impose "the cult of reason";the elimination of monasteries and convents that did not serve ends verifiable by "reason".Yes here Jonas recalls once more to memory, the decisive influence of Talleyrand, who "was implacable in his utilitarian logic with respect to contemplative orders whose main products were meditation and prayer [affirming that] the nation has the right to "destroy" certain orders "if it judges them harmful or simply without purpose".

Yes the "epic" part is clear enough. But why, WHY is it that Jonas implies **relevance** for modern times? This would make sense if Jonas were perhaps a traditional Catholic or Monarchist, who believed in the values of the Other France, who believed her values still had pertinence today.

But Jonas is no such Traditionalist. His perspective is that of a contemporary academic historian, with all the non-faith bias and so-called "objectivity" that usually implies.

This is, in other words, a book to make any traditional Catholic reader wince at times, if not throw down the book in rage. To simply write this book off however, would be a shame indeed.As a traditional Catholic myself, I can commiserate. A telling of this history stripped of faith is not to become objective, it is to become first lopsided and then cynical ...

Now this is NOT to say that this is an **aggressively** cynical book, one where Jonas takes up the cudgels for the Revolution. Rather, one may sense that Jonas even has a certain sympathy for his subjects. To be fair to him, I think he is **genuinely trying** to penetrate the motivations and worldview of the Other France.

It's just that as a sceptic, he can't. Jonas for example, evokes a long, long line of often forgotten Saints, visionaries and leaders who stood for the Sacred Heart. He evokes not simply the relatively well known and canonised Saints, Marguerite-Marie and Claude Colombiere, but also for example, la venérable Anne-Madeleine Rémuzat, Sophie Barat, Marie de Jesus and more, whose often literal visions of the Sacré Coeur helped forged the counter-culture to the Republic.

But how can Jonas hope to penetrate the vision of such mystics, with a view that is basically reductionist, often Freudian? Thus Jonas speaks of one Catholic leader not being able to resist a Freudian "internalized" sense of duty. But what if that which is irresistible, is not to be reduced to infantile experience - but is something altogether transcendent to it?

For Jonas there can be no answer. And also no way to discriminate between authentic mystical experience and false. Who can say how much authentic mystical experience forged the counter-culture of the Sacred Heart and how much false ... ?

In a similar vein, Jonas while speaking of a vision by which Claude Colombiere came to be regarded as a saint writes: "Within the space of a lifetime, Colombiere had moved from the status of an ordinary mortal with ordinary human failings to a prominent place in a heavenly inner circle. This was an unparallelled triumph."

But how is Jonas so sure that Saint Claude Colombiere was **never anything** more than an "ordinary mortal with ordinary human failings". Yes by what **authority** does Jonas assert this view?

Clearly the "authority" Jonas relies on is a consensus of the reductionist academic zeitgeist, but such can have no authority for the man or woman of faith and piety, who has no trust in the ex cathedra dogmas of Freud ...

Yet if Jonas cannot penetrate the spiritual vision of the Catholic mystics, he can still address the social and political attitudes of Catholic France.

Often he does this very well indeed. For example, commenting on the Society of the Sacred Heart of Tournely, Broglie and Varin, Jonas does represent their "awareness of the broader cultural implications of 1789" that is to say, that they "had grasped something essential about the Revolution. For the Revolution and its values to prevail, it would have to drive Catholicism and its values from their leading position in public life."

Well said indeed.

Yes there is a degree of genuine good intention in this book - which should be esteemed. It is just that Jonas cannot seem to escape the secular assumptions and modern interpretations of his age.I trust that some of these will seem quaint indeed in time to come. But if Jonas participates in the modern malady that robs our world of soul and mystery, he is not to be blamed for it. He deserves commiseration instead.

Thus while regretting what the author misses, Catholics can still salute what is on offer.For there is GOLD here. Jonas has done a wealth, a great wealth of intensive research in uncovering an important story- and a story that has rarely if ever been collected under two covers of an English book before.

What is more, the writing is also superb: it is not only highly engaging -I found the book rivetting in fact - but also clear and precise.Sometimes I found Jonas' turn of phrase most elegant indeed, as if he could not have more sparingly chosen better words to neatly, so neatly capture **exactly** what he wanted to say.

May I be forgiven for repeating myself? Why is it again I wonder, that Jonas calls his book an Epic Tale for Modern Times?

And I wonder what indeed has moved him to work so diligently at evoking this lost world of soul and tradition and Holy and unholy mystery?Why has Jonas crafted this Epic Tale ... the Epic Tale of the Other France - the France that did not rally to the Revolution, the massacre of king, queen, untold numbers of nobility, priests, monks, nuns and Catholic peasants? The France that made continuing efforts to make render visible an alternative vision of a Sacred Culture, most spectacularly of all on hill overlooking Paris ... the Sacré Coeur de Montmartre.

Yes this sceptic Jonas, apparently unquestioning product of a modern age, has spent years of his life in writing and researching this book (as well as a follow-up on Claire Ferchaud, which I hope to review soon), years turning his attention to such a different world than our own. The buried, bygone world of Catholic France before the first World War. And this world of La Vraie France obviously fascinates and compels him. Speaking very personally, I wonder if somewhere deep within the recesses of his heart, Dr Jonas has a hunger for the Catholic Mystery, which his superb rational mind cannot bear to admit ...

Well-written, fascinating book!
This is a thoughtful, intelligent, and well-researched book which should be required reading for anyone interested in the fascinating history of French Catholicism.There is much here for professional historians, interested amateurs, and anyone who has ever climbed the hill of Montmartre and pondered the immense church at its summit.Jonas, author of _Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasants of the Isère, 1870-1914_, convincingly explores the history of the Sacred Heart devotion, the national feelings of guilt after the Franco-Prussian War, and elaborates upon an important aspect of the conservative politics of modern France.The work nicely complements the works of Ruth Harris, Thomas Kselman, Timothy Tackett, and Dale Van Kley.I recommend it very highly.

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