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Adèle
Joseph Stefanelli, SM, 565 pp.
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Adèsle
A Biography of Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon

Dedication
Author’s Preface

Chapter 1: June, 1808
Adele; the chateau of Trenquelléon; Feugarolles, Agen, and the Garonne valley; family and friends.

Chapter 2: 1789-1793
Adele’s birth; ancestry; her parents; the Estates-General; beginnings of the Revolution; life on the estate; Constitution of the Clergy; the émigrés; departure of the Baron; dispersal of religious; execution of Louis XVI.

Chapter 3: 1793-1797
The Revolution and Trenquelléon; search and confiscation; radical changes in France; reactions and riots; Reign of Terror; Adele and the poor; her “Carmelite vocation”; relative calm in France; the coup of September 4, 1797; the Baroness trapped.

Chapter 4: 1797-1801
The road to exile; Tolosa; petitions to the government; on to Brangança; life in exile; the family re-united; Adele’s education and development; San Sebastián and first Communion; home again.

Chapter 5: 1801-1803
New start at Trenquelléon; Concordat; Napoleon and Pope; amnesty and rebuilding; Ducourneau; a Rule of Life for Adele; Confirmation; the Diché girls.

Chapter 6: 1803-1805
Adele and Dicherette; Dousset; Emporer Napoleon, needs of the Church in France; the “Association” and its Rule; marriage of Dicherette; Adele’s correspondence; discerning a vocation; Bishop Jacoupy at Trenquelléon; Elisa and Clara orphaned.

Chapter 7: 1806-1807
Larribeau; missionary Miquel; growth of the Association; Adele’s concerns; her leadership role; Adele, Agathe, and Dicherette; departure of Charles for Paris; Adele’s inner life; an unexplained silence.

Chapter 8: 1807-1809
Lafon and the Sodality of Bordeaux; Chaminade; relations with Bordeaux; marriage proposal for Adele; her decision; re-structuring the Association into the Third Division; Chaminade and Adele; spiritual practices; suppression of the Sodality in Bordeaux; Adele seriously ill.

Chapter 9: 1809-1811
Health and vocation; political unrest; Adele’s twenty-first birthday; her “school” and charities; her concern for the Associates; fashions and decency; Adele’s life-style; her understanding of Mary; death of Sérène; birth of Dicherette’s fourth son, further contacts with Bordeaux.

Chapter 10: 1812-1814
Adele’s zeal; Charles’ return from Paris; Lafon’s new adventures; death of Dr. Belloc; war and famine; another Associate dies; illness of the Baron; religious in secular clothing; Laumont and reception of Sodalists; Lompian and the cher projet; Dubrana; marriage of Charles, fall of Napoleon.

Chapter 11: 1814-1815
The “Restoration”; Chaminade meets Adele’s relatives; Julie; Lompain and religious names; Larribeau and Laumont to Trenquelléon; prospects for a “novitiate”; the Baron’s illness worsens; “constitutions” for the cher projet; religious missionary sodalists; temporary vows; Jacoupy approves the Sodality; Napoleon and the “hundred days.”

Chapter 12: 1815-1816
New suppression in Bordeaux; Adele, twenty-six years old; death of the Baron and defeat of Napoleon; plans for the future; leaving everything “in good order”; plans for Chaminade’s visit; renting space; continued development of the Third Division; nature of the new foundation; twenty Associates ready; Constitutions finished; fading prospects and inner trials for Adele.

Chapter 13: 1816
Firmness, and abandonment; Constitutions, “regulations,” and candidates; death of Madame Pachan, leasing the Refuge; financial arrangements between Adele and Charles; farewells; arrival at the Refuge, May 25,1816; the city of Agen; religious life, vows, enclosure; Chaminade and Jacoupy at odds.

Chapter 14: 1816-1818 (1)
Profession of vows delayed, Chaminade and de Lamourous; Mouran; Adele as Superior; the first Sisters, and more arrivals; wearing of the habit; marriage of Désirée; Chaminade’s new version of a vow of “enclosure”; Sisters of St. Joseph; need for new forms; Chaminade’s July visit (1817); profession of vows; Adele’s new role; community schedule.

Chapter 15: 1816-1818 (2)
Community organization; work, prayer, silence; enclosure: active and passive; Chaminade’s visit (April, 1818); Soeur Saint-Joseph and Adele; screening and forming candidates; Condom: Lolotte and the Sodality; Amélie, Mélanie, and Belloc; Men’s Sodality at Agen; Women and Young Ladies; pre-sodalists; classes for the poor, and other works; the “male religious of our Institute”; Third Order Secular.

Chapter 16: 1819-1820
Favors from Rome; illness among the Sisters; first deaths; Soeur Elisabeth, Soeur Scolastique; Chaminade at Agen (July, 1819); Adele’s illness; contacts with Emilie de Rodat; description of works and communities; plans for union; Adele and her vivacity; Clara enters the convent; Elisa and her vocation; difficult cases; Soeur Célestine, Soeur Assomption.

Chapter 17: 1820-1821
Adele’s illness, her motivation; Chaminade visits in August (1820); planning to move; the Augustinian monastery; Lacaussade and Tonneins; from Refuge to Augustinians, September 6, 1820; new foundation at Tonneins; Soeur Thèrése as Superior; Soeur des Anges; Mlle Drenne; death and burial; new candidates.

Chapter 18: 1821-1822
Annual retreats; preparations for Chaminade’s visit (August, 1821); Lolotte and “flight” to convent; professions and personnel; Adele as guide; follow-up on visit; material concerns, Registers, guidelines for acceptance and dismissal; Mélanie and the “silences”; Soeur Angélique, formation and education; Soeurs du petit habit; Assistantes.

Chapter 19: 1822-1824
Frustrated plans for merger with Villefranche; illness and death; Soeur Elisabeth Degers, Mère Thérèse; Soeur Sacré-Coeur to Tonneins; more illnesses; Adele under strict orders; plans for Condom; Soeur Présentation.

Chapter 20: 1824-1825
Agreement on Condom; Soeur Incarnation; arrangements for novitiate at Bordeaux; Chaminade at Agen (July, 1824); to Condom via Trenquelléon; Chaminade and Adele to Tonneins, to Bordeaux; Adele returns to Agen; Soeur Sacré-Coeur and Soeur Marie-Joseph; Soeur Gonzague and the novitiate; isolation of Adele; Agnèle; Soeur Thérèse de Saint-Augustin.

Chapter 21: 1825
Adele’s health fluctuates; support and advice for Incarnation; Condom boarding school; Adele’s zeal; Soeur Gonzague; candidates from afar; government recognition of the Brothers; Dubrana ordained; Jacoupy tries to resign; Adele writes a “history” and burns her letters.

Chapter 22: 1825-1826
Difficulties at Condom; death of Soeur Saint-Esprit; serous illnesses; Soeurs Félicité, Mélanie, Agnès; the Dames du Paravis; little protégée; Mlle Buiette; death of d’Aviau, and of Chaminade’s sister Lucrèce; Madame Clairefontaine: proposals and reactions; Chaminade visits (July, 1826); death of Soeur Agnès; plans for Arbois; Adele visits Bordeaux.

Chapter 23: 1826-1827
Beginnings at Arbois; Soeur Marie-Joseph near death; proposals for new foundation; Third Order Secular, and Regular; the Silhères sisters; prayers and petitions for Adele’s health; the tenth death: Soeur Trinité; Chaminade comes to Agen (July, 1827); seeking government recognition; Adele’s last annual retreat; new candidates; death of Laumont; Adele’s “uselessness.”

Chapter 24: 1827-1828
Adele’s Testament, financial arrangements; processing the request for government recognition; departure of Soeur Marthe; final illness of Adele, death and burial; the Baroness write to Chaminade; official recognition of the Institute by the State and Church; Adele, still very much alive.

Chapter 25: 1828-Epilogue

Appendices:
Index of Proper Names
Photographs

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