Robert Bresson's fourth film after Affairs Publique (1934), extant only in a fragment; Angels of Sin (Les Anges du péché, 1943); and The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, 1945) Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne, 1951) is generally regarded as the director's first fully finished, mature work,