Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Jacqueline-Marie-Angélique Arnauld, or Arnault, called La Mère Angélique

Abbess of Port Royal, a Center of Jansenism.

"Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God."