Les Misérables, Book 6: Le Petit-Picpus, Chapter 2: riassunto
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In Chapter 2, the narrator describes the Bernardine-Benedictines of Petit-Picpus, tracing their religious affiliation and explaining the severe rule that governs their daily lives. Their prayers, penances, clothing, restricted contact, and rejection of possessions establish a community organized around obedience and seclusion, while bodily suffering and three cases of madness expose its human cost.
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- The narrator traces the community’s affiliation to Saint Benoît and explains Martin Verga’s place among related religious orders.
- The sisters wear prescribed habits, fast, endure physical discomfort, and submit completely to their elected prioress.
- They perform twelve-hour prayers of reparation and maintain continuous adoration through hourly turns.
- Shared language, open cells, ritual greetings, and hourly prayers regulate their possessions, privacy, speech, and thoughts.
- Government restrictions prevent burial beneath their altar, leaving them a separate burial arrangement at Vaugirard cemetery.
- Public confession, voluntary penance, and restricted visits reinforce discipline; the account ends with three nuns becoming mad between 1825 and 1830.
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