Raymond Jonas, Professor of History at the University of Washington, is the author of "France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times (California, 2000), "Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasants of the Isere, 1870-1914 (1994), and "Le Sacre-Coeur; histoire d'une devotion du XVIe au XXe siecle (2004).