men for bishops and accepts none others for cantonal
cures. (Today, in 1999, we can look back on a century of quarrelling,
even war, between Rome and Paris with the separation of the Catholic
Church and the State in 1905, sequestration of all church property,
impoverishment of the clergy, interdiction of the different orders,
papal bulls, ending in 1914 when the State had to concentrate all effort
towards winning the war. Today the church is allowed to operate but its
influence is much reduced as it the case for all the religions since the
advent of the consumer society with television etc. SR.)]

[Footnote 5347: "The Ancient Regime," pp 171, 181, 182. (Ed. Laffont I.,
p. 129 to 139.)]

[Footnote 5348: M. de Vitrolles, "' Memoires," I., 15. (This passage
was written in 1847.) "Under the Empire, readers were to those of the
present day as one to a thousand. Newspapers, in very small number,
scarcely obtained circulation. The public informed itself about
victories, as well as the conscription, in the articles of the
'Moniteur,' posted by the prefects."--From 1847 to 1891, we all know
by our own experience that the number of readers has augmented
prodigiously.]

[Footnote 5349: I wonder what Taine would have said of television, that
system which allows its producers to make all mankind believe that the
lies and figments of the imaginations put in front of them show the true
and real world as it is. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5350: An expression by Renan in relation to Abbe Lehir, an
accomplished professor of Hebrew.]

[Footnote 5351: Th. W. Allies, rector of Launton, "Journal d'un voyage
en France," p.245. (A speech by Father Ravignan, August 3, 1848) "What
nation in the Roman church is more prominent at the present day for its
missionary labors? France, by far. There are ten French missionaries
to one Italian." Several French congregations, especially the "Petites
Soeurs des Pauvres" and the "Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes," are so
zealous and so numerous that they overflow outside of France and have
many establishments abroad.]

[Footnote 5352: "Manreze du pretre," by Father Caussette, II.,419: "Now
that I have placed one of your hands in those of Mary let me place the
other in those of Saint Joseph.... Joseph, whose prayers in heaven are
what commands to Jesus were on earth. Oh, what a sublime patron, and
what powerful patronage!... Joseph, associated in the glory of divine
paternity;... Joseph, who counts twenty-three ki