The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition.
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Priests of the French Revolution
Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Notes to Prologue
- Part One: Engagement, 1789–1791
- Chapter 1: The Formation of a Revolutionary Priest" Sieyès and Grégoire
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: The Priests in Action: From Estates General to National Assembly
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: Claude Fauchet at the Bastille
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: The Church of Adrien Lamourette and His Allies
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Part Two: Survival, 1791–1795
- Chapter 5: The Failed Relationship of Revolutionary Church and State
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: The Tragic Convention Years
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: Terrorists and Abdicators: Ultimate Renegades
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Part Three: Revival, 1795–1802
- Chapter 8: The New Constitutional French Church
- Notes to Chapter 8
- Chapter 9: Stabilizing the Constitutional Church: Claude Le Coz and the Council of 1797
- Notes to Chapter 9
- Chapter 10: Constitutional Irresolution in the See of Paris: Jean-Baptiste Royer and the Council of 1801
- Notes to Chapter 10
- Chapter 11: Constitutional Clergy in the Church of Napoleon’s Concordat
- Notes to Chapter 11
- Chapter 12: The Afterlife of the Constitutiional Church: Hopes and Reality
- Notes to Chapter 12
- Appendix: Administration of the Constitutional Church and Oath Adherence by Department
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- COVER Back
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