Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (commonly Madame Guyon; 13 April 1648 – 9 June 1717) was a French mystic, spiritual writer, and lay teacher of prayer whose writings on inward prayer, abandonment to God, and pure love became one of the central subjects of the late seventeenth-century Quietist controversy in France. Her works, especially Moyen court et très facile de faire oraison and her biblical commentaries, circulated widely in manuscript and print. They influenced François Fénelon, arc…