Rouen, which Cardinal
Tencin collated, was in the Abbey of St. Peter, in Lyons. Some
leaves had been thumbed out of existence, and their place was
supplied in manuscript. The only difference was in chapter xxviii.
where the printed Rouen text may have varied. In the MS. at all
events, it is stated that on March 21, the spirit of Sister Alix de
Telieux struck thirty-three great strokes on the refectory of her
convent, 'mighty and marvellous,' implying that her thirty-three
years of purgatory were commuted into thirty-three days. A bright
light, scarcely endurable, then appeared, and remained for some
eight minutes. The nuns then went into chapel and sang a Te Deum.

At the end of the volume, a later hand added, in manuscript, that
the truth of the contemporary record was confirmed by the tradition
of the oldest sisters who had received it from eye-witnesses of the
earlier generation. The writer says that she had great difficulty
in finding the printed copy, but that when young, in 1630, she
received the tale from a nun, then aged ninety-four. This nun would
be born in 1536, ten years after these events. She got the story
from her aunt, a nun, Gabrielle de Beaudeduit, qui etoit de ce tems-
la. There is no doubt that the sisters firmly and piously believed
in the story, which has the contemporary evidence of Adrien de
Montalembert. Dufresnoy learned that a manuscript copy of the tract
was in the library of the Jesuits of Lyons. He was unaware of an
edition in 12mo of 1580, cited by Brunet.

To come to the story, one of our earliest examples of a 'medium,'
and of communications by raps. The nunnery was reformed in 1516. A
pretty sister, Alix de Telieux, fled with some of the jewels, lived
a 'gay' life, and died wretchedly in 1524. She it was, as is
believed, who haunted a sister named Anthoinette de Grolee, a girl
of eighteen. The disturbance began with a confused half-dream. The
girl fancied that the sign of the cross was made on her brow, and a
kiss impressed on her lips, as she wakened one night. She thought
this was mere illusion, but presently, when she got up, she heard,
'comme soubs ses pieds frapper aucuns petis coups,' 'rappings,' as
if at the depth of four inches underground. This was exactly what
occurred to Miss Hetty Wesley, at Epworth, in 1716, and at Rio de
Janeiro to a child named 'C.' in Professor Alexander's narrative.
{112} Montalembert says, in 1528, 'I have heard these rappings man