Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lamennais, Robert de" to "Latini, Brunetto"

part in the politics of churches and of states.

As a rest from political strife, Lamennais devoted most of the following year to a translation, in exquisite French, of the _Speculum Monachorum_ of Ludovicus Blosius (Louis de Blois) which he entitled _Le Guide spirituel_ (1809). In 1811 he received the tonsure and shortly afterwards became professor of mathematics in an ecclesiastica...