The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. (Intellectual stillness and interior passivity) Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing a book on the topic.