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‘Few French people have any notion of who the founder of the Order of Preachers really was... Most know nothing about him, except that he invented the Inquisition and led the war against the Albigensians, two total falsehoods, which raise the curious question in human history of how they were ever believed...' [Lacordaire] The ‘Life of Saint Dominic' was written by Lacordaire during his novitiate in Rome, and published in 1840. This book, which remains so appealing because the author's personality and concerns have left their mark on the text, constitutes a high point of the Dominican restoration in France.