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saints and renegades in a new political era
xxvi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Explores how priests and bishops who embraced the French Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry.
The formation of a revolutionary priest: Sieyès and Grégoire -- The priests in action: from estates general to national assembly -- Claude Fauchet at the Bastille -- The church of Adrien Lamourette and his allies -- The failed relationship of revolutionary church and state -- The tragic convention years -- Terrorists and abdicators: ultimate renegades -- The new constitutional French church -- Stabilizing the constitutional church: Claude Le Coz and the council of 1797 -- Constitutional irresolution in the See of Paris: Jean-Baptiste Royer and the council of 1801 -- Constitutional clergy in the church of Napoleon's Concordat -- The afterlife of the constitutional church: hopes and reality.
Includes bibliographical references and index.