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First letters patent from King Louis XV of France, authorising the establishment of s community of students under the title of the Holy and the Immaculate Conception.

Ordination to the priesthood of René-Jean Allenou de la Ville-Angevin, a disciple of Poullart des Places and second father of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit (Brittany).

Death of Jacques Garnier, the successor of Poullart des Places. The seven most senior students chose Louis Bouic, aged 25, as the new superior. He is subsequently re-elected 17 times…

Louis Bouic is ordained priest by the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal de Noailles, 11 days before the death of Claude Poullart des Places. A few months later, he will become…

Arrival of the Jesuits. They are responsible for all the missionary work in the country up to their suppression in 1784. The work is then continued by the Spiritans.

Claude Poullart des Places is ordained priest by Mgr. de Thiard de Bissy, the Bishop of Meaux and the successor of Bossuet. He is a great benefactor of the Seminaire…

Claude-François Poullart des Places is ordained deacon in Paris.

Claude Poullart des Places receives the sub-diaconate.

The beginning of the retreat that Poullart des Places makes with the Jesuits at rue Turnefort (Réflexions sur le passé). A year later, he moves with his community into the…

Messire Claude-François Poullart des Places, in the year one thousand, seven hundred and three, on the Feast of Pentecost, while still only an aspirant to the ecclesiastical state, began the…

Reflexions on the truths of religion made during a retreat by a soul which is considering its conversion               MY WISH was to retire from worldly activity so as…

The birth of Louis Bouic at Guillac in the diocese of St. Malo. He is the second successor of Claude Poullart des Places at the age of 26 after the…

Baptism of Claude-François Poullart des Places in the church of St. Peter and St. George. His godfather is Count Claude de Marbeuf, president of the parliament of Brittany: "a high…

Birth at Rennes of Claude-François Poullart des Places, the son of François-Claude Poullart des Places (an inspector of counterfeit money) and Jeanne le Meneust.

Arrival of the first priests in Guyane – Capuchins.