 Confreres such as Gabriel Perboyre, Jean-Baptiste Pémartin, Félix Contassot, Jean Parrang, Fernand Combaluzier, Pierre Coste, and André Dodin are representatives of this French school of Vincentian historiography.Their labors established the foundation for all contemporary work in Vincentian studies.In the early 1970s there was an attempt to found an organization similar to what would become the Vincentian Studies Institute.