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

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1855

pg 242       Brothers and the Sisters, who all seemed to return to their former 
             sentiments towards him and towards the Lake.
                  But he was deeply pained to hear him who ought to be a model 
             to all proclaim aloud in chapter that he would be Local Superior 
             in spite of F. Sorin.  Meanwhile the latter had among his papers 
             the act of his dismissal pronounced by Ste. Croix; but seeming to 
             let some months pass and make his report to His Reverence.
                  But it would be too painful again to go over the details of 
             this lamentable history.  It is already set down in No. 8 of 
             Chapter IX of these chronicles.  For this page on New Orleans let 
             is suffice to say that at the end of six months--which is 
             incomprehensible even five years afterwards--this same father did 
             obtain his nomination, and he was himself the first to proclaim 
             his triumph.
                  The state of affairs continued until the voyage of F. Sorin 
             in France in 1852.  It took him some hours to make the chapter 
             understand the nature of the events that were to lamentably