A brief Life of the Reformer of the Third Order Regular and his first Companions. The Reform of the Third Order Regular of our Seraphic Father St. Francis of Assisi was instituted in France by the Reverend Père Vincent Mussart at Francoville sous Bois, Diocese of Beuvais, six leagues from Paris in the Year 1594. By 1601 it had spread ti the small village of Picpus, a suburb of Paris and thereafter became known as The "Reform of Picpus" ; Analecta Tertii Ordinis Regularis Sancti Francisci 072 [vol. XXXV] (2004) 311-318.