Bernadette and Lourdes Mauriac and their world of upper-class

and their world of upper-class Britain which witnesses to the very worst and very best of mankind

Five years have passed since Peter Burns was handed a letter informing him that his fiancée

it is possible to pass one’s whole life without really thinking at all…” For those who shirk this possibility and seek to know the meaning of life

First published in 1911

Paperback: 164pp

Bernadette and Lourdes Mauriac and their world of upper-classBy Michel de Saint Pierre The French town of Lourdes lies at the bottom of a valley as though in the palm of a hand. In this simple place, on Thursday, February 11, 1858, in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous beheld a vision of a Lady in white. Over the next four months, this Lady would appear to Bernadette a total of eighteen times, assuring her of happiness not in this world but the next;