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"--Provided by publisher.
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2014]
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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.