By William Bush (Professor Emeritus of French Literature at the University of Western Ontario).
At the height of the French Revolution\'s \'Great Terror\' a community of sixteen.
Includes index and 15 photos.
Recounts the dramatic True Story of the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiegne, martyred during the French Revolution\'s \'Great Terror\' and known to the world through their fictional representation in Gertrud von Le Fort\'s Song at the Scaffold and Francis Poulenc\'s Dialogues of the Carmelites.
By William Bush (Professor Emeritus of French Literature at the University of Western Ontario)