L'Amérique du Nord française dans les archives religieuses de Rome 1600-1922. Guide de recherche by Pierre Hurtubise, Luca Codignola and Fernand Harvey (review)

354BOOK REVIEWS sented by the Archbishop ofYork, did exert a constructive influence in the troublesome period following World War II. Rene Kollar St. VincentArchabbey Latrobe, Pennsylvania American and Canadian L'Amérique du Nordfrançaise dans les archives religieuses de Rome 16001922 . Guide de recherche. Under the direction of Pierre Hurtubise, Luca Codignola, and Fernand Harvey. (Sainte-Foy Québec: Les Presses de l'Universit é Laval, Les Éditions de l'IQRC 1999. Pp. xii, 202. $32.00 Can.) AU guides, catalogues, and calendars save historians innumerable hours. This is particularly the case, when, as in the present book, the professionals who put the volume together are scholars actively working in the craft. The authoreditors of the Guide carefully divided the chores. As the introduction explains, Hurtubise and Roberto Perin contextualized the opus in the historical essay on "Rome et l'Amérique du Nord française." Codignola and Matteo Sanfilippo, who worked together in composing "Archivistes, historiens et archives romaines," were responsible for the archives and libraries of Rome. Harvey joined Codignola in drawing up helpful chronological tables. The Guide leans toward Canada—a tilt obvious and intended—but it does include francophone United States. Well, partially: for example, the Ursulines enterTrois Rivières in 1697 but they are not mentioned as starting their pioneer school in New Orleans in 1727. The dioceses of Baltimore and Boston were never francophone, but, yes, as indicated, each did have one bishop who was born in France. The Guide lists seven full pages of Canadian dioceses and bishops , whether the bishops were francophone or not; but it gives only four pages to the United States francophone bishops, omitting those who were not francophone . Bishop Luis Peñalver left New Orleans for Guatemala's archdiocese in 1801, not 1806. Archbishop John Carroll died two and a half months after the consecration of Bishop Louis DuBourg; hence, contrary to page 170's affirmation, Archbishop Leonard Neale, Carroll's successor, was not the one asked to care for the neighboring diocese. An American researcher—even though the Codignola Guide des documents ... be more extensive—will probably consult the widely circulated United States Documents in the Propaganda FideArchives:A Calendar, published by the Franciscans in Washington, D.C, which in its early volumes carried the name of Finbar Kenneally O.F.M., as editor. I recall working decades ago (1959) at a desk in Propaganda Fide's archives next to Mr. Anton Debevec, who died in 1987; he began his work on that Calendar in 1954. 1 admired his assiduity in attendance and his mastery of languages. When he had a couple of BOOK REVIEWS355 questions about American geography, I was honored and pleased to assist. He showed me how to write in order to obtain authorization; then, with that permission , I was able to borrow his typescript years before the Calendar came out in print. The Guide is complete. It even covers Vatican documents not in the so-called Secret Vatican Archives [ASV] . (This main body of papal documents may be "separate," but it has not been "secret" for a long time.) An example would be the Archives of Out-of-the-Ordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. Are not all "Vatican" documents to be found in the ASV? No, as the Guide rightly shows. The Guide is generous in listing several of my publications. (This is not the first time I have seen my middle name without the s!) In another section the Guide cites an article of mine in the Catholic Historical Review as an example of a publication "without reference to Roman sources" (pp. 43 and 51). That statement led me to tally up the references; forty of the article's footnotes cite Roman sources. This blunder, however, is not typical of the Guide, which is commendable for its accuracy. (Cardinal Paul Poupard wrote a presentation for the Guide;when he was in the office of the papal Secretary of State in late 1959 or early I960 just before the centennial of the Civil War—Pius LX's documents were not yet available—he gave his assurance that there was no unpublished dossier relating to the Confederate States of America. So I dropped the southern confederation...