Note 322 — Chapter X · ATTEMPTS OF THE POPES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

D’Aguesseau says that “the terms of this letter were coached so that it could only be considered as a testimony of the grief of these bishops, in learning the prejudice which this pope entertained with respect to them, in regard to what had passed in the assembly held at Paris in 1682. They did not avow that these pretensions were well founded.” Whatever d’Aguesseau may say about it, the letter of these bishops does them no honour: it will be found in our second volume.