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The great betrayal (La trahison des clercs)

Note 152 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal (continued 2)

Richard Aldington translation

This may be clearly seen by the ill-will displayed by the French bourgeoisie towards the order of their ‘spiritual leader’ forbidding them to read a publication whose doctrines they like. The change may be estimated if you remember that when, a century ago, the Pope ordered the French Catholics to accept the law against the Jesuits voted by the government of Charles X, they all bowed to his will.

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