[212] Cp. Aulard, Le Culte de la Raison et le Culte de l’Être Suprême, 1892, pp. 17–19. M. Gazier (Études sur l’histoire religieuse de la révolution française, 1877, pp. 48, 173, 189 sq.) speaks somewhat loosely of a prevailing anti-Christian feeling when actually citing only isolated instances, and giving proofs of a general orthodoxy. Yet he points out the complete misconception of Thiers on the subject (p. 202). [↑]
[213] Cp. Prof. W. M. Sloane, The French Revolution and Religious Reform, p. 43. [↑]
[214] Gazier, as cited, pp. 2, 4, 12, 19–21, 71, etc. [↑]
[215] Les Assemblées Provinciales sous Louis XVI, 1864, pref. pp. viii–ix. [↑]
[216] Gazier, L. ii, ch. i. [↑]
[219] Léonce de Lavergne, as cited. [↑]
[220] The authority of Turgot himself could be cited for the demand that the State clergy should accept the constitution of the State. Cp. Aulard, Le Culte de la Raison, p. 12; Tissot, Étude sur Turgot, 1878, p. 160. [↑]