How did St. Charles de Foucauld, a scion of aristocratic privilege, come to so own the virtue? As a young army officer posted to French Algeria, Charles de Foucauld was impressed by the piety of simple Muslims. Abbé Huvelin did not explain God to Charles Foucauld. Put another way, to know God is to know who we are not. One could say that to find God is to know humility, though the converse is equally true: to know humility is to find God.