Vincentian places series

When Ozanam was appointed to lecture on German literature, he journeyed throughout Germany to research carefully and to appreciate fully the milieu of the subject he was about to teach.

In 1840 Ozanam traveled to Sens, where his friend François Lallier resided.

When Ozanam rented a country house in Sceaux, not far from Paris, his friend Jean-Jacques Ampère visited him on a regular schedule.

In 1836, three years after the family visit to Italy, Frédéric and his brother Alphonse had enjoyed each other’s company on a journey through Switzerland.

Ozanam’s visits to those in poverty made him painfully aware of the large number of people leading a life of degradation. He wrote from his experience in the 12th Arrondissement.

On Christmas Eve in 1842, Frederic and his wife Amélie attended midnight Mass at the Abbey-au-Bois, located on the rue de Sèvres.

The Church of Saint-Sulpice was a familiar place in the life of Ozanam, for various reasons.

After Ozanam’s wife experienced her first miscarriage, Ozanam took refuge in the St. Germain L’Auxerrois church to pray.

Having become a professor at the Sorbonne, Frederic Ozanam would live with Amélie (his wife) and later Marie (their daughter) on rue de Grenelle, rue Garancière, and rue de Fleurus, all located in the same general neighborhood of Paris.