Note 39 — FOOTNOTES:
Reading edition
Two works will give the reader ample material for forming an idea on the subject. From the Jesuit side there is Crétineau-Joly's work, Clément XIV. et les Jésuites (1847), though the work is little more than a reproduction of the fifth volume of the same writer's Histoire ... de la Compagnie de Jésus, and is quite unprincipled in many of its statements. The other work (Histoire du pontificat de Clément XIV., 1852) is a reply to the preceding, written by the learned and conscientious Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives, Father Theiner. Both contain copious extracts from contemporary documents, especially the correspondence of the ambassadors. The work of St. Priest, Histoire de la chute des Jesuites, is interesting and lively, but gossipy and unreliable.