is a writer, historian and lecturer. He is a secular Franciscan, a deacon in the Catholic Church, former National Director for France of Aid to the Church in Need, and Vice-president of the John Henry Newman French Association. The book was translated into English by Malachy O'Higgins, who has taught at the Ecole Normale Superieure de St Cloud, the Universite ... Read morede Paris X (Nanterre), the Dublin Institute of Technology, and Holy Trinity College in Zimbabwe, and abridged by linguist David Crystal, author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language and A Life made of Words: the Poetry and Thought of John Bradburne. Show Less