Pauline Marie Armande Craven

He and his wife were attached to the court of Charles X at the Tuileries, but a momentary quarrel with the duc de Bern made retirement imperative to the comte's sense of honor.

Pauline was thus brought up in brilliant surroundings, but she derived her strongest impressions from the group of Catholic thinkers that gathered around Lamennais, and her ardent piety furnishes the key to her life.

In 1828 her father was sent to Rome, and Pauline, at the suggestion of the art critic Alexis Rio, made her first literary essay with a description of the emotions that she experienced on a visit to the catacombs.

His father, Richard Keppel Craven, the well-known supporter of Queen Caroline, objected to his son's marriage, as Augustus didn't have an income to support such a wife; but his scruples were overcome, and immediately after the marriage (1834) Augustus Craven joined the Roman Catholic Church.

This book, Le Récit d'une Sœur (1866, English translation 1868), was enthusiastically received and was awarded a prize by the French Academy.