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Discussion prompts:

1. Rose's notes: In 1649, the Blessed Sacrament...with this pious aim: Hugo seems to have invented the incident involving the desecration of the Eucharist, but he has once again used real people in his fictional creation. Catherine de Bar (1614-98), known as Mother Mechthilde du Saint-Sacrement, was a well known, influential abbess in the seventeenth century. She did in fact found a convent dedicated to the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, in the rue du Bac, in 1653. The comtesse de Châteauvieux was a friend and supporter of Mother Mechthilde.
2. Any general thoughts on this chapter' contents and writing style?
3. Other points of discussion? Lines that stood out to you?

Final line:

But the two orders remained distinct none the less.

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