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Children are sold there by auction, and I would if I could remove them from this bad treatment and perhaps from death, by bringing them up in Algeria and then returning them to their own countries with our missionaries – the Society is already in existence.

Tous ces jeunes gens m’avaient charmé par leur excellent aspect, leur dévouement et cet air de modeste assurance qui convient si bien à des missionnaires.

My dear brethren, and you above all, my dear Sons, you who have come to occupy a place of honour in the army which has been formed in accordance with the solemn wish to the Powers of the civilized world against African slavery, I cannot think of delivering a discourse to you, but I would blame myself if I did not, in the name of religion, in the name of France, render public homage to your heroic selfsacrifice.

As for the Capuchins, the first condition I would impose on the government, as I have already stated, would be to respect all their established rights and to touch not a single one of them.