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name of Cesar de Bus. Nevertheless, Cesar de Bus is a man
of blessed memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory.
The last arch-bishop, the Cardinal de Perigord, did not even
know that Charles de Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and
Francois Bourgoin to Gondren, and Jean-Francois Senault
to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to Jean-Francois
Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because
he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the
Oratorie, but because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot
king, with the material for an oath. That which pleases peo-
ple of the world in Saint Francois de Sales, is that he cheated
at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? Because there
have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap,
was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because
both of them followed Mommol. What has that to do with
the question? Does that prevent Martin de Tours from be-
ing a saint, and giving half of his cloak to a beggar? They
persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the truth. Dark-
ness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which
are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked
people are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order
of the revolution. One no longer knows what is due to the
living or to the dead. A holy death is prohibited. Burial is
a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint Leo II. wrote two spe-
cial letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to the king of
the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting,
in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch
and the supremacy of the Emperor. Gauthier, Bishop of Ch-
alons, held his own in this matter against Otho, Duke of

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