Missionnaires au quotidien a Tahiti: Les Picpuciens en Polynesie au XIXe siecle

This work examines the everyday life of Catholic missionaries sent out to Tahitian islands in the period from 1834 to 1914. Using the correspondence of the 167 members of the order of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, an attempt is made to define the social and geographic origins of the Picpucian people. Priests and friars are followed in their education, from the apostolic school to the first Pacific vicariates. The book explores how the day-to-day affairs of these people were managed from the first days of established contact.