THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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The opportunity came the next year. “The French General Duphot was shot and killed, whereupon the French took
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[1] In 1789 the revolutionary assembly voted that the possessions of the clergy be placed at the disposal of the nation. The next year the religious orders were suppressed. All citizens, even Protestants or Jews, were given the right to hold church offices, and “the first obligation of the priests was to take an oath of fidelity to the Constitution, which denied to the Pope any effective power over the church” George Goyau, "French Reveloution," The Catholic Encyclopedia, www.newadvent.org/cathen/13009ahtm (accessed August 15, 2014). Any priest who would not take the oath, was deported to
[2] Wikipedia contributors, "Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title+DechristianisationofFranceduringtheFrenchRevolution&oldid=635540 (accessed December 10, 2014)
[3] Georges Goyau, "Napoleon I (Bonapart)" The Catholic Encyclopedia, www.newadvent.org/cathen/1067a.htm (accessed August 15, 2014)
[4] Ibid
[5] In 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France, and he continued his war against the Papacy. A new pope, Pius VII, had been elected. At first there was an uneasy peace but as the pope refused to co-operate in Napoleon’s grandiose empire-building, he ordered the pope arrested in July, 1809. When the pope attempted to continue his political and religious directives from prison, “the conditions of the pope’s captivity were made more severe, all his correspondence had to pass through Paris, to be inspected by the Government, he could no longer receive visits without the presence of witnesses, a gendarme demanded of him the ring of St. Peter, which Pius VII surrendered after breaking it in two” Georges Goyau, "Napoleon I (Bonapart)" The Catholic Encyclopedia, www.newadvent.org/cathen/1067a.htm (accessed August 15, 2014). “The Church suffered enormous losses as a result of the French Revolution. For example, the great abbeys of