Saint JEANNE DE CHANTAL (1572-1641) founder of the order of the Visitation of Mary, canonized in 1767. Manuscript, Responses de nôtre tres honorées et digne mere Jeanne Françoise Fremiot sur les regles, constitutions et coutumier de nôtre ordre de la visitation Ste Marie, XVIIe siècle ; fort volume petit in-4 de 823 pages, contemporary binding in black basane with fillets and cold fleurons on the boards, speckled edges (worn binding). Contemporary copy of the Responses of Jeanne Françoise Frémiot on the Rules, Constitutions and Coutumier of the Order of the Visitation of St. Mary printed in 1632. The Responses are preceded by an epistle by Marie-Jacqueline Favre (1589?-1637), one of the first four sisters of the order.