Note 1565 — XXX. THE CHURCH AND THE REVOLUTION.
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“D’être fidèle à la nation, à la loi, au roi, et del veiler exactement sur le troupeau confié à leurs soins.” It was not only the objections of the king and of the pope that rendered this oath unpalatable, but also the fact that it gave adhesion to the law for the secularization of ecclesiastical property and of the monastic orders. It was ordered in the Constitution civile du Clergé, Tit. II. Art. 21, 38, adopted July 12 and promulgated Aug. 24, 1790.