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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 65 — BOOK VI[60]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

"When, on the 7th of August 1814, the Bull of Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum, came to sanction the work of restoration of the Company of Jesus, the primitive cantons of Switzerland did not remain insensible to the joys of Catholicism. Ignace Brocard, Jacques Roh, Gaspard Rothenflue and several of their fellow-countrymen enlisted under the banner of the newly-reinstated Order. The Valais gave back to the Jesuits their old college of Brigg." (Crétineau-Joly, Histoire du Sunderbund, Vol. I., p. 428.)—B.

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