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Author Byrnes, Joseph F., 1939- author.

Title Priests of the French Revolution : saints and renegades in a new political era / Joseph F. Byrnes.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Explores how priests and bishops who embraced the French Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry"--Provided by publisher.
Contents The formation of a revolutionary priest: Sieyès and Grégoire -- The priests in action: from estates general to national assembly -- Claude Fauchet at the Bastille -- The church of Adrien Lamourette and his allies -- The failed relationship of revolutionary church and state -- The tragic convention years -- Terrorists and abdicators: ultimate renegades -- The new constitutional French church -- Stabilizing the constitutional church: Claude Le Coz and the council of 1797 -- Constitutional irresolution in the See of Paris: Jean-Baptiste Royer and the council of 1801 -- Constitutional clergy in the church of Napoleon's Concordat -- The afterlife of the constitutional church: hopes and reality.
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Subject France -- Church history -- 18th century.
France.
Church history.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Religious aspects.
Priests -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Priests.
Church and state -- France -- History -- 18th century.
History.
Christianity and politics -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Church and state.
Christianity and politics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
War -- Religious aspects.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries -- Europe.
France.
HISTORY / Europe / France.
Revolution (France : 1789-1799)
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Church history.
Other Form: Print version: Byrnes, Joseph F., 1939- Priests of the French Revolution. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014] (DLC) 2014004247
ISBN 9780271060989 (electronic book)
0271060980 (electronic book)
9780271063775 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0271063777