translate English to French: We are a small people, the product of a Jansenist colony, isolated, defeated, left a powerless prey to all those invading congregations from France and Navarre that were eager to perpetuate in this holy realm of fear (in-fear-is-the-beginning-of-wisdom!) the blessings and prestige of a Catholic religion that was being scorned in Europe.
Petit peuple issu d'une colonie janseniste, isolé, vaincu, sans défense contre l'invasion, de toutes les congrégations de France et de Navarre, en mal de perpétuer en ces lieux bénis de la peur (c'est-le-commencement-de-la-sagesse!) le prestige et les benefices du catholicisme malmené en Europe.