It was there that the Baron was able to rejoin his wife and children not long after this in July 1798. In 1789, France allowed expelled refugees to return to Spain, and on September 8, 1800, the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, Adele and her family settled in San Sebastián. It was there that she made her First Communion on January 6, 1801 in the church of Santa María. On November 14, 1801, her family received permission to return to their family chateau in France. On June 12, 1799, her sister Désirée was born. On February 6, 1803 she received her Confirmation from the Bishop of Agen. It was in San Sebastian that Adele came to know the Carmelite nuns, who inspired her to consider answering a call to religious life. Not long after their return to France, in January, 1802, Adele told her parents of her desire to become a Carmelinte nun. However, due to her young age, her mother persuaded her to wait before entering the convent. In the meantime, Adele asked her older brother's tutor, Monsieur Ducourneau, to write a Rule of Life for her in order to prepare her for life in an enclosed religious order. On August 5, 1803, she and some friends formed a spiritual union called the "Little Society," which had as its goal to create a network of women who would support each other in their faith. As this association grew, Adele began writing to all its members from her home in the Chateau de Tranquelleon. This association grew rapidly and by 1808, its members numbered some 60 people, mostly young women from the countryside, as well as a few priests. At this time, Adele began visiting the sick and inviting poor children from the country to her home to teach them about the fundamentals of the Christian faith. In 1808 her mother visited a friend who worked at a hospital in Figeac. While telling this friend in the hospital waiting room about her daughter's group another man (Hyacinthe Lafon) in the waiting area overheard their conversation and told the Baroness that the association's goals and purposes sounded similar to another group he belonged to in Bordeaux that Blessed William Joseph Chaminade founded. Lafon suggested that her daughter and Chaminade begin corresponding. The Baroness bought the group to her daughter's attention and she and Chaminade begin corresponding at once.