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Raymond Sickinger's biography of Antoine Frdric Ozanam is more than a chronological account of Ozanam's relatively brief but extraordinary life. It is also a comprehensive study of a man who touched so many lives as a teacher, writer, and principal founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. Ozanam's forty years on earth encompassed a particularly turbulent time in French history, and he was a witness to two major political upheavals - the overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty that brought Louis Philippe to power in 1830, and the end of Louis Philippe's "Bourgeois Monarchy" as a result of the 1848 Revolutions. This book examines Ozanam's life in three ways. First, it explores the various roles he played throughout his life-son, sibling, student, member of and an inspiration for the Society of St.