Fribourg. In 1826, she was elected superior of the monastery at Troyes, where she initiated the practice of the "Spiritual Directory of St. Francis de Sales", which counseled living in the present moment and doing all that is pleasing to God. In 1833, she spent six months in the second monastery in Paris, where she was superior (1838–44). Here, a Father Beaussier wished to establish clubs or meeting places for young men entering the work force, in order to provide a healthy Christian environment. Mother Chappuis assisted with material and financial resources. She set up similar places for young women in Troyes. Foundress As it became increasingly difficult to staff these facilities with only volunteers, Chappuis and Brisson decided to found a religious community. Leonie Aviat, and Lucie Canuet, graduates of the Visitation School in Troyes, were the first candidates. The greater part of Chappuis' life was spent at Troyes, where she was elected superior eleven times, and where she celebrated, in 1866, the golden anniversary of her religious profession. While superior at Troyes, she encouraged the monastery chaplain, Louis Brisson to start a religious order of men to follow the spiritual legacy of Francis de Sales. "What you are doing is, of course, very good, but what you are going to do will have much greater results." Chappuis became ill in September 1875 and died at the monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary in Troyes on 7 October 1875. Teaching Mother Marie de Sales is celebrated chiefly for her zeal in spreading a certain kind of spirituality which she called "The Way" (La Voie). This is a reference to John 14:6, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me." Her principal biographer, Louis Brisson, who had been for thirty years confessor to the Visitandines of Troyes, and was her spiritual director, writes that by this expression – La Voie – "she understood a state of soul which consisted in depending upon the actual will of God, relishing whatever was His good pleasure, and imitating the life of the Saviour externally". The English edition of her life (London, 1900), in translating this sentence, overlooks the word actuelle (actual): "What did the good Mother mean by this Word, 'The Way'? She meant a state of soul which consists in an entire dependence on the Will