jansensists

Updated: January 10, 2026

In addition to this, she excited the envy and jealousy of a certain class of women, whom Ninon called "Jansensists of love," because they practiced in public the puritanic virtues which they did not even have tact enough to render agreeable.

Ninon de Lenclos - Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos : The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century