The Life of Mother Duchesne

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Excerpt from The Life of Mother Duchesne: Religious of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and Foundress of the First Houses of That Society in AmericaThe scene of her apostolate was Louisiana, a country which was originally colonized by the French, and which has always retained a strange attachment to the land of its forefathers. From a Catholic point of view America is deeply interesting to Europe. From a material point of view alone it would afford a subject of wonder and admiration to the Old World, for it is a marvellous fact that a people which the famous Comte de Maistre described at the beginning Of the century as an infant in its cradle, which numbered only about four millions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.