The Life and Times of Louis XIV

His mother had, I think, three brothers who were priests. And so again, this is a really devout family. He does discern a call to priesthood and goes to Paris in the early 1690s. It actually takes him a while because he doesn't have the kind of the funds that he needs. But he eventually studies in the seminary of sense of peace. So you can see there's these different influences, Jesuit, Sopitian. In some ways, it's almost like, if this isn't too florid of an image, it's like going out and picking these flowers from anywhere he finds them.