THE biographical sketch which we present to the Christian public is a work of piety in the two acceptations of the term-piety towards God, which finds its aliment in the example of a holy life and a heroic death, and the piety of affectionate remembrance, which induced us to accept the mission that we were offered, more than ten years ago, by the venerable parents of the young martyr. Incessantly interrupted by other labors, and resumed oftentimes only at long inten-als, our task was not accomplished ere the death of M. and Mme. de Bretellieres. Whilst regretting deeply that this we could not...