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Priests of the French Revolution : saints and renegades in a new political era /

Explores how priests and bishops who embraced the French Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrnes, Joseph F., 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Religious aspects.
Christianity and politics > France > History > 18th century.
Church and state > France > History > 18th century.
Priests > France > History > 18th century.
France > Church history > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.