Charles de Foucauld, a French nobleman who put off the trappings of nobility to take on the ascetic life of a desert priest, never gained a single convert. His life-long ambition of establishing a new religious order did not come to fruition until well after his death. His story is a testimonial to the will-power and religious fervor of one man. AUTHOR: Marion Mill Preminger worked for many years at Dr. Albert Schweitzer's clinic in Gabon, Africa. She did extensive work on Foucauld in both France and Algeria.