Annales de la Société des soi-disans Jésuites, ou, Recueil historique-chronologique de tous les actes, ecrits, dénonciations, avis doctrinaux, requêtes, ordonnances, mandemens, instructions pastorales, décrets, censures, bulles, brefs, edits, arrêts, sentences, jugemens émanés des tribunaux ecclésiastiques & séculiers : contre la doctrine, l'enseignement, les entreprises & les forfeits des soi-disans Jésuites, depuis 1552, époque de leur naissance en France, jusqu'en 1763. (A Paris : [s. n.], 1764-1771)

We have received a large donation of over 100 books, mainly from the 17^th and 18^th centuries, on Jansenism. These were collected by David Askew, formerly of the French Department at Monash, and donated to us by his widow, Uschi Felix.

Jansenism arose in France in the early 17^th century. It was a theological belief that people could not obey the Commandments without special grace from God. This proposition was considered as heresy by the Holy See. However the piety and the rigorous discipline of the Jansenists, especially at the Convent of Port Royal, near Paris, saw a growth in devotion to their cause in France. Pascal supported them in his Lettres provinciales (1656-7) and controversy raged into the 18^th century. One of the unifying characteristics of the movement was their antagonism towards the Jesuits.

Jansenism was finally condemned in the Papal Bull, Unigenitus (1713). By then most Jansenists had fled to Belgium and Holland. Port Royal was destroyed and the ground de-consecrated.

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