[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) CHAPTER II 67/69
"One day, having gone out of his palace, he suddenly returned, having forgotten something--he had neglected to kiss the feet of his Heavenly Mother."-- Cf.
"Vie de Mgr. Dupanloup," Abbe Lagrange, I., 524.
"During his mother's illness, he multiplied the novenas, visited every altar, made vows, burnt candles, for not only had he devotion, but devotions...
On the 2d of January, 1849, there was fresh alarm; thereupon, a novena at Saint-Genevieve and a vow--no longer the chaplet, but the rosary.
Then, as the fete of Saint Francois de Sales drew near a new novena to this great Savoyard saint; prayers to the Virgin in Saint-Sulpice; to the faithful Virgin; to the most wise Virgin, everywhere."] [Footnote 5281: "Manreze du pretre," I., 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, 91, 92, 244, 246, 247, 268.] [Footnote 5282: Ibid.
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