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JOURNAL ET PENSEES DE CHAQUE JOUR ~ precedés d'une lettre du R.P. JANVIER O.P ELISABETH LESEUR publisher: J. De Gigord, Paris, 1925. Lovely leather rebinding with ornate decorative gilt tooling , lettering, gilt edges; satin cloth endpages; frontice portrait of the author; 338 pages, text in french, a pleasing production from a French mystic best known for her spiritual diary. Élisabeth Arrighi Leseur (16 October 1866 – 3 May 1914), born Pauline Élisabeth Arrighi, was a French mystic best known for her spiritual diary and the conversion of her husband, Félix Leseur (1861–1950), a medical doctor and well known leader of the French anti-clerical, atheistic movement.[1] The cause for the beatification of Élisabeth Leseur was opened in 1934. Her current status in the process is that of a Servant of God.