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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

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[31] Ludofic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution Civile du clerg?,"
vols. III. and IV., passim. - Jules Sauzay, "Histoire de la
pers?cution r?volutionaire dans le Doubs," vols. III., IV., V., and
VI., particularly the list, at the end of the work, of those deported,
guillotined, sent into the interior and imprisoned.
[32] Order of the day of the Convention September 17, 1792; circular
of the Executive Council, January 22, 1793; decrees of the Convention,
July 19, August 12, September 17, November 15, 1793. - Moniteur,
October, and November, 1793, passim. (November 23, Order of the Paris
Commune, closing the churches.) - In relation to the terror the
constitutional priests were under, I merely give the following
extracts (Archives Nationales, F7,31167): "Citizen Pontard, bishop of
the department of Dordogne, lodging in the house of citizen Bourbon,
No. 66 faubourg Saint-Honor?, on being informed that there was an
article in a newspaper called "le Republican" stating that a meeting
of priests had been held in the said house, declares that he had no
knowledge of it; that all the officers in charge of the apartments are
in harmony with the Revolution; that, if he had had occasion to
suspect such a circumstance, he would have move out immediately, and
that if any motive can possibly be detected in such a report it is his
proposed marriage with the niece of citizen Caminade, an excellent
patriot and captain of the 9th company of the Champs-Elys?es section,
a marriage which puts an end to fanaticism in his department, unless
this be done by the ordination of a priest ? la sans-culotte which he
had done yesterday in the chapel, another act in harmony with the
Revolution.


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