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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER II
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(Speech of the Abbe de Montesquiou) .-- Archives Nationales," papers of the Ecclesiastical Committee, DXIX.

6, Visitation de Limoges, DXIX.

25, Annonciades de Saint-Denis; ibid.

Annonciades de Saint Amour, Ursulines d'Auch, de Beaulieu, d'Eymoutier, de la Ciotat, de Pont Saint-Esprit, Hospitalieres d'Ernee, de Laval; Sainte Claire de Laval, de Marseilles, etc.

"] [Footnote 2245: Sauzay, I.247.Out of three hundred and seventy-seven nuns at Doubs, three hundred and fifty-eight preferred to remain as they were, especially at Pontarlier, all the Bernardines, Annonciades, and Ursulines; at Besancon, all the Carmelites, the Visitandines, the Annonciades, the Clarisses, the Sisters of Refuge, the Nuns of the Saint-Esprit and, save one, all the Benedictine Nuns.] [Footnote 2246: "Archives Nationales." Papers of the Ecclesiastical Committee, passim .-- Suzay, I.51 .-- Statistics of France for 1866.] [Footnote 2247: In 1993 this number has once more fallen, and continues to fall, to 55 900.


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