Chapter 13 JOSEPH DE MAISTRE

St. Francis de Sales, was not only a missionary, but also a man of letters, and-especially-a patron of letters. Thirty years before Richelieu founded the French Academy, he founded the Florimontane Academy-with the motto Flores fructusque perennes-in Savoy, and thus forged one of the links between the literature of Savoy and that of France. More th