Category: History - European
These Considerations, written during the last six years’ residence in France, have already appeared in the Press of the United States. They were written from year to year without any thought of republication, which seems justified to-day by the acuity of the conflict between t...
It was on one of these occasions that Mlle. de Lambert cried “Capon” to a justice of the peace because he had beaten a hasty retreat when he found, in a cloister, two or three h...
5. Part 5To understand their position we must recall that the Convention confiscated all Church property and lands, the pious donations of kings and people which had accumulated during f...
3. Part 3Another proposition, a corollary of the first, is equally true. If, and when, and where Christianity disappears, liberty, which is bound up with and inseparable from the Christi...
8. Part 8Now M. Combes declares that “in deliberately separating the diplomatic convention (Concordat) from the organic articles, Pius VII and his successors have destroyed its efficacy....
9. Part 9The gist of the law is in the articles that regard “_Associations cultuelles_,” which are aimed at the destruction of Catholic hierarchy and unity. M. Ribot sought, in vain, to...
2. Part 2If I insist, it is because I wish that it may be clearly understood that the French people are not guilty of the criminal legislation of which they are the victims, owing to the...
4. Part 4If the Congregations devoted to the sick, the maimed, and the blind could make common cause with the teaching Congregations, if all refused to demand authorization, which is mer...
13. Part 13Then let us consider the embarkation of the Pilgrim Fathers from Holland, where they had sought asylum from the rigid conformity enforced by reformed England. Finding themselves...
11. Part 11The discussion raised by M. Combes with the Vatican, regarding the words _nobis nominavit_ in the canonical investiture of French bishops presented by the Government as candidat...
10. Part 10In an important political speech made by Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli) at Aylesbury, September 20th, 1873, he expressed himself as follows: “I can assure you, gentlemen, that tho...
7. Part 7If death had not cut short Waldeck Rousseau’s career we might witness a _machine en arrière_ policy. It is even possible, now, that a moderate Rouvier-Ribot ministry may succeed...
12. Part 12These associations of the law of 1905, which ignorant or malevolent writers continue to represent as being the same as those of Prussia and other half-Protestant countries, were...
14. Part 14In England, France, Germany, everywhere, greed and political ambition were the incentives; the passions of ignorant masses were merely used as a means. Back of both, and behind...
1. Part 1These Considerations, written during the last six years’ residence in France, have already appeared in the Press of the United States. They were written from year to year withou...
15. Part 15And in the same session M. Briand, to explain why it was not possible to lend the churches to _curés_ under the new law for any definite time, said: “In fixing no term the Gover...