Charles Girard

Charles Girard, member of the Society of Mary, is originally from Louisiana, USA. He holds a doctorate in medieval French, Tulane University, New Orleans. He has transcribed, annotated, and indexed the 1365 letters received from Oceania by the General Administration of the Marist Fathers between 1836 and 1854. Held in the archives of the Marist Fathers in Rome, these are now published in a ten volume critical edition by Éditions Karthala, Paris. The present anthology is a selection of this opus magnum of historical sources for the Pacific.