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A Kiss for the Leper Sheed The Theology of History inBy Franois Mauriac With an Essay by Anthony Esolen Jean Ploueyre, as ingrate heir to an extensive French estate, is a maladroit, misshapen, misbegotten young man. The very antithesis of a hero, Jean stands very much in need of salvation. And yet, as Anthony Esolen writes in the essay accompanying the novel, The redeemers and the redeemed are not whom we expect. Against Nietzschean notions of power and sentimental dilutions of Christianity, Franois