Hatred for French Clergy - 1826
Charles X of France presents awards.
Introduction
In the 1820s, France saw a return to animosities similar to those that had led up to the French Revolution of 1789. These would culminate in the July Revolution of 1830 that drove Charles X from the throne. On August 8, 1826, the Viscount Sosthenes de La Rochefoucauld noted a growing hatred of priests.
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“Indifference to religion, hatred of the priests, were the symptoms of the Revolution. God grant that the same things do not bring the same results. The unfortunate priests no longer dare to go through the streets; they are everywhere insulted. Three days since, a well-dressed man, passing by the sentinel of the Luxembourg said to him, pointing to a priest: ‘Never mind; in a year you’ll see no more of all these wretches.’ The poor Cure of Clichy was in real danger, surrounded by two or three hundred madmen, who cried; ‘Down with the black-hats!’ Every day there is a scene of the same sort.”
Quoted in Saint-Amand, Imbert De. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X. 1892.