chef-d'aeuvre

Updated: June 27, 2025

The fame of this chef-d'aeuvre of Christian piety, as Lescarbot gravely calls it, spread far and wide through the forest, whose denizens, partly out of a notion that the rite would bring good luck, partly to please the French, and partly to share in the good cheer with which the apostolic efforts of Father La Fleche had been sagaciously seconded came flocking to enroll themselves under the banners of the Faith.

Francis Parkman - Pioneers of France in the New World