L’écriture de l’expérience spirituelle dans le Journal d’Eugénie de Guérin

This article uses Eugénie de Guérin's diary to explore the links that unite daily practice - writing day after day in the intimate confines of the exercise book or notebook - and a certain relationship with oneself and the world - and with the Invisible. To what extent does daily writing, in its ritual reiteration, in its attention to the tiny and ephemeral, in the self-reflection it implies, in the secrecy it imposes, constitute a form of exercise or even spiritual experience?