"We learn," said he, "that, abjurations being frequently made in provinces distant from those in which our newly converted subjects die, our judges to whom those who die relapsed are denounced find a difficulty in condemning them, for want of proof of their abjuration.

The stay which those who were of the religion styled Reformed have made in our kingdom since we abolished therein all exercise of the said religion is a more than sufficient proof that they have embraced the Catholic religion, without which they would have been neither suffered nor tolerated." There did not exist, there could not exist, any more Protestants in France; all who died without sacraments were relapsed, and as such dragged on the hurdle.

Those who were not married at a Catholic church were not married.

M.Guizot was born at Nimes on the 4th of October, 1787, before Protestants possessed any civil rights in France.
Bossuet had died on the 12th of April, 1704.

When troubles began again in the church, the enemies of the Jansenists obtained from the king a decree interdicting the _Reflexions morales cur le Nouveau Testament,_ an old and highly esteemed work by Father Quesnel, some time an Oratorian, who had become head of the Jansenists on the death of the great Arnauld.
Its condemnation at Rome was demanded.