(An order by Lequinio, representative of the people of Charante-Inferieur, la Vendee and Deux-Sevres, Saintes, Nivose 1, year II.) "In order that freedom of worship may exist in full plenitude it is forbidden to all whom it may concern to preach or write in favor of any form of worship or religious opinion whatsoever." And especially "it is expressly forbidden to any former minister, belonging to any religious sect whatever, to preach, write or teach morality under penalty of being regarded as a suspect and, as such, immediately put under arrest..

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Every man who undertakes to preach any religious precepts whatsoever is, by that fact, culpable before the people.

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social equality, which does not permit the individual to publicly raise his ideal pretensions above those of his neighbor."] [Footnote 2131: Ludofic Sciout, "Histoire de la Constitution Civile du clerge," vols.III.and IV., passim .-- Jules Sauzay, "Histoire de la persecution revolutionaire 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.] [Footnote 2132: 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.