Excerpt from Life of Mademoiselle Le Gras (Louise De Marillac): Foundress of the Sister of Charity Souls exclaims a distinguished historian of this great religious movement Souls! At this epoch we see them, we touch them. God plants Saints as He did stars, and the night is illumined. The Church of France had never before shone so brightly. St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.