inistere--Steady cutting down of the budget--No statistics of religious
opinion in France--A Benedictine archbishop--Great increase of
the religious sentiment in Reims--The Church driven by the
Republic into opposition--Leon Say and the present Government--The
home of Montaigne--A deputy of the Dordogne invalidated
to snub Leon Say--Socrates and David Hume in modern France--Dogmatic
irreligion--Jules Simon on the proscription of Christianity--Abolishing
the history of France--A practical protest of
the Catholic Marne--The great pope of the crusades--Catholic
and Masonic processions--The Triduum of Urban II.--A great
celebration at Chatillon--Hildebrand and his disciple--The
Angelus and the 'Truce of God'--Mgr. Freppel on the anti-religious
war--Jeanne d'Arc at Reims--A magnificent festival--Gounod's
Mass of the Maid of Orleans--Catholic protest against
the persecution of the Jews--The Republic threatens the grand
rabbis with the archbishops--Deriding a death-bed in a
hospital--The amnesty of the Communards--The rehabilitation of
crime--Tyranny in the village schools--Religious freedom in
France and Turkey--The home of Jeanne d'Arc--'Laicising'
Domremy-la-Pucelle--Piety and hypnotism--The chamber and garden of
Jeanne--Louis XI. and the French yeomen--A shrine converted
into a show--A scurvy job in a place of pilgrimage--The banner
of Patay--Jeanne and her voices--A western worshipper of the
Maid of Orleans--The Chateau de Bourlemont--The Princesse
d'Henin and Madame de Stael--The revolutionary traffic in passports--A
generous act of Madame Du Barry--'Laicisation' in the
Vosges--The defeat of Jules Ferry--The Monarchists going up,
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CHAPTER XIV

IN THE CALVADOS

Val Richer--The home of Guizot--The French Protestants and the
Third Republic--Free education in France the work of Guizot--Education
in France checked by the Revolution--Mediaeval provisions
for public education--The effect of the English and the
religious wars upon education in France--Indiscriminate destruction
of educational foundations by the First Republic--Progress
of illiteracy after 1793--The guillotine as a financial expedient--The
Directory painted by themselves--The two Merlins--'Republican
Titans' wearing royal livery--Barras on the cruelty of
poltroons--Education under Napoleon--The Concordat and t