At the height of Louis XIV’s France, Madame Jeanne Guyon and Archbishop François Fénelon kept a contemplative correspondence with the Duchesse de Chevreuse and the aristocratic circles around them, carrying a renewal of interior prayer through salons and spiritual direction. Persecuted by Bossuet and formally condemned, their writings survived through the friendships that preserved them, eventually finding their way, in translation, into the hands of John Wesley.