Note 230 — VII PORTRAITS
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Four bishops, of whom the chief was Nicolas Pavillon, the devout Bishop of Alet, had formally protested against the persecution of the nuns of Port-Royal in order to force them to sign the “formulary” declaring that the Augustinus had been rightly condemned. At last in 1668 they were induced to make an ambiguous submission, with which Clement IX declared himself satisfied. A medal was struck to celebrate the “Peace of the Church,” but the peace was a sham one, as the Jesuits well knew.