Excerpt from Bossuet and His Contemporaries

He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His Eye. - deut. Xxxii. 10.

Antoine lived in his house, he soon made a home of his uncle's library, and before he was seven years old began to look upon books as the companions and chief interest of his life, to turn to them as his best amuse ment and greatest pleasure, and consequently study became a passion, a craving of his whole being, which required to be controlled and disciplined, as it assuredly was hereafter, when action as well as thought and study claimed so large a part of his life.

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