Extract from the personal notes of Curé Thériault

“A large young man of 26, built like an athlete, square shoulders, powerful neck, round head crowned with chestnut hair, pink cheeks, delicate nose, thin lips…very bright blue eyes… When hunted or pressed, he swears and makes gestures that show that he is an authoritarian leader aware of his strength. He knows how to make others obey him, as much if not more, by brute force and a sharp angry voice, as by persuasion. To see and hear him, one would think him closed-minded, very slow to make decisions and with no intuition – but at the approach of danger,  when he is hunted, pursued and backed into such a tight corner that anyone else would think impossible to escape, then his face comes alive, his eyes sparkle, his mind awakens and he overcomes the obstacles without too much trouble.”