Womanizer Delinquent Glutton Deserter Visionary Linguist Explorer Hermit. The lexical fields do not match yet both sets of descriptors apply to one man Blessed Charles de Foucauld 18581916 one of nineteenthcentury Frances most complex and challenging figures. Upon graduation from the prestigious cole de Saumur Foucauld went to North Africa with his cavalry regiment. In a sense he never went home the desert had called to him converted him even and the oncerenegade scion devoted the