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Excerpt from The Life of Cardinal Cheverus: Archbishop of Bordeaux, and Formerly Bishop of Boston, in Massachusetts Jean louis anne imagdeleine lefebvre DE cheverus was born at Mayenne, the capital of the ancient province of the Lower Maine (in France), on the 28th of January, 1768; of a family, in vested, for several generations, with the magistracy of the city, and honored with general esteem and confidence. At the period of his birth, the imme diate family of the Cardinal consisted of three broth ers, who held at once all the principal offices in the city of Mayenne. The eldest, Louis Rene de Cheverus, held the ecclesiastical power, as rector of the principal parish; the second, Mfde Champorain, was invested with the civil power, as mayor and the third, Jean Vincent Marie Lefebvre de Cheverus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.