Jesuits
Chris Sweet
csweet at gte.net
Mon Jul 14 17:44:22 CDT 1997
Doug Millison wrote:
>
> One historical work I'm reading in tandem with M&D is Francis Parkman's
> "France and England in North America." In Parkman's history, I haven't
> quite caught up to the period covered in M&D yet. Here's how Parkman
> described the Jesuits, circa 1865, from Chapter VI, 1611, 1612, "Jesuits in
> Acadia":
>
It's interesting that some of the best fiction I've read in the past
year
(M&D, Fathers&Crows, Black Robe, and The Sparrow) all involve Jesuits.
-chris
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