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Early Modern · 1664
The Life of Vincent de Paul
Louis Abelly · 1604–1691
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What it is
The first life of Vincent, written four years after his death by a colleague with access to the archives of his congregations.
Why it lasted
The source of most of what is known about the organisation of seventeenth-century French charity, and of Vincent's own words.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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