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Charles Sainte-Foi

1806–1861

A 19th-century French Catholic writer who published under a pen name, he wrote devotional works, biographies, and reflective memoirs shaped by the religious debates of his time.

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Serious Hours of a Young Lady

Serious Hours of a Young Lady

by Charles Sainte-Foi

About the author

Charles Sainte-Foi was the pen name of Éloi Jourdain, a French Catholic writer. Library authority records describe him as an author of devotional works and apologetic biographies, and note that he published under this pseudonym rather than his family name.

His books range from spiritual guidance to historical and biographical writing. Catalog records list works such as Le livre des peuples et des rois, Théologie à l'usage des gens du monde, Vie du vénérable Joseph Anchieta, and Serious Hours of a Young Lady, along with translations and religious studies.

He is also remembered for Souvenirs de jeunesse, 1828-1835, a memoir connected with Lamennais and his circle and the wider Catholic movement in France and Germany after the Revolution of 1830. Sources consulted during this search disagree slightly on whether he was born in 1805 or 1806, but they agree that he died in 1861.