Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1852

pg 165       transaction was disagreeable, but in itself was a great relief to 
             N.D. du Lac, for which those missions were becoming every year a 
             greater burden.

                                6.  F. Sorin Named for Bengal

1852 Father       In the month of August of this same year the Rev. F. Rector 
Sorin named  wrote to F. Sorin that if he did not find some one to put at the 
for Bengal   head of the new mission of Bengal, he would be obliged to impose 
             this burden on him.  At the same time he wrote to FF. Granger and 
             Cointet, whose answers showed only repugnance to superiorship in 
             this southern foundation.
                  Hardly had he received them [the answers] than he took his 
             measures definitively and sent his orders to the Chapters of N.D. 
             du Lac and of Bertrand, to accede at once to the departure of F. 
             Sorin for Dacca in the month of May following, and to the return 
             of F. Cointet from New Orleans, where he was to be replaced by F. 
             Gouesse.
                  This latter had been in Canada for some months, having been 
             obliged to leave Louisiana on the representatives of F. Sorin 
             whilst he was in Le Mans.  According to the tenor of the documents