Boiron, Anne2020-02-132020-02-132017"Quêtes littéraires" 2017, nº 7, s. 12-222084-8099http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/817Mme de Maintenon’s letters often refer to religious silence. Heart of a christian woman’s life, silence is indeed a way to achieve salvation. Practising silence, both in speaking and writing, allows one to master and reduce one’s pride. It is then a good tool to control others, as it is to pursue a spiritual fulfilment.frUznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.plsilenceepistolarysalvationprideLe silence dans la correspondance de Mme de Maintenon, ou l’art d’un style qui se taitSilence in Mme de Maintenon ’s correspondence: the art of a quiet styleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.31743/ql.2017.7.01