French abbess who reformed the convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs from laxity to strict Augustinian observance, making it the center of Jansenist spirituality.
Transformed Port-Royal into a model of reformed monastic life under strict Augustinian discipline; her reform attracted the Arnauld family's intellectual engagement with Jansenism.
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