Some are even ill-disposed, watching him or denouncing him to the ecclesiastic or lay authorities on which he depends.

He is expected to make his orders respected and yet not hated, to be zealous and yet not importunate, to act and yet not efface himself: he succeeds pretty often, thanks to the preparation just described, and, in his rural sentry-box, patient, resigned, obeying his orders, he mounts guard lonely and in solitude, a guard which, for the past fifteen years, (from 1870-1885) is disturbed and anxious and becoming singularly difficult.
***** [Footnote 5201: Artaud, "Histoire de Pie VII.", I., 167.] [Footnote 5202: Comte d'Haussonville, "L'Eglise romaine et le premier Empire, IV.,378, 415.

(Instructions for the ecclesiastical commission of 1811.) "The Pope exercised the authority of universal bishop at the time of the re-establishment of the cult in France....

The Pope, under the warrant of an extraordinary and unique case in the Church, acted, after the Concordat, as if he had absolute power over the bishops." (Speech by Bigot de Preameneu, Minister of Worship, at the national council, June 20, 1811.) This act was almost universal in the history of the church, and the court of Rome started from this sort of extraordinary act, passed by it at the request of the sovereign, in order to enforce its ideas of arbitrary rule over the bishops."] [Footnote 5203: So stated by Napoleon.] [Footnote 5204: Bossuet, "OEuvres completes, XXXII.", 415.

(Defensio declarationis cleri gallicani, lib.