[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) CHAPTER I 23/75
You will replace the houses suppressed, not by Sisters of the same order, but by those of another order of charity.
The Sisters at Paris will lose their influence, which will be a good thing." Whatever the communities may be, the authorization by which they organize is merely a favor, and every favor granted may be withdrawn. "I will have no more missions of any kind.[5171] I established missionaries in Paris and gave them a house: I cancel it all.
I am content with religion at home; I do not care to spread it abroad...
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I make you responsible if (in a month from this) on the first of October there are any missions or congregations still existing in France."-- Thus does the regular clergy live, under a revocable title, by toleration, despotically, suspended by a thread which, perhaps to- morrow, may be cut at the masters pleasure. VII.
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