FOOTNOTES:
[107] The great plague of 1720, which carried off 60,000 people about Marseilles. Belzunce is the “Marseilles’ good bishop” of Pope’s line—Trans.
[108] See “The Proceedings in the Affair of Father Girard and La Cadière,” Aix, 1733.
[109] See the work by M. d’Antrechaus, and the excellent treatise by M. Gustave Lambert.
[110] A case of mesmerism applied to a very susceptible patient.—Trans.
[111] After the saint of that name, whose handkerchief received the impress of Christ’s countenance.—Trans.
[112] The Dauphin was cruelly flogged. A boy of fifteen, according to St. Simon, died from the pain of a like infliction. The prioress of the Abbey-in-the-Wood, pleaded before the King against the “afflictive chastisement” threatened by her superior. For the credit of the convent, she was spared the public shame; but the superior, to whom she was consigned, doubtless punished her in a quiet way. The immoral tendency of such a practice became more and more manifest. Fear and shame led to woeful entreaties and unworthy bargains.
CHAPTER XI.
CADIERE IN THE CONVENT: 1730.
The Abbess of the Ollioules Convent was young for an abbess, being only thirty-eight years old. She was not wanting in mind. She was lively, swift alike in love and in hatred, hurried away by her heart and her senses also, endowed with very little of the tact and the moderation needed for the governing of such a body.