Claude Lancelot, solitaire de Port-Royal in Bloomington, MN

Claude Lancelot (1616-1695) was one of the first teachers at the Petites ecoles de Port-Royal, one of whose brightest pupils was Jean Racine. Having lived through the troubled years of the Port-Royal, Lancelot was exiled to Brittany, where, before his death, he joined the Benedictine order.