ish."--_Note of Sister Lemonnier_ in
Mr. Tilliard's Memoire. See also the _National_, March, 1845.

[3] The preliminary confession of the nuns to the superior, easily
acceded to in the first fit of enthusiasm, soon becomes an intolerable
vexation. Even in Madame de Chantal's time, it was much complained of.
See her letters, and Fichet, 256; also Ribadeneira, Life of St. Theresa.

[4] Sister Marie Lemonnier was shut up with mad girls: here she found a
Carmelite nun, who had been there nine years. The third volume of the
_Wandering Jew_ contains the real history of Mademoiselle B. All this
happened very lately, not in a mad-house, but in a convent. Since I
have this opportunity of saying a word to our admirable novelist, let
him permit me to ask him why he thought proper to idealise the Jesuits
to this extent? who does not know that certain dignitaries of their
order have become immortal by ridicule? It is difficult to believe
stupid writers to be strong minds, or profound machinators. I look in
vain for a Rodin, and find only Loriquets.

[5] All these people buy and sell, and become brokers. Prelates
speculate in lands and buildings, the Lazarists turn agents for
military recruits, &c. The latter, the successors of St. Vincent de
Paul, the directors of our Sisters of Charity, have been so blessed by
God for their charity, that they have now a capital of twenty millions.
Their present chief, Mr. Etienne, then a procurer of the order, was
lately the Lazarist agent in a distillery company. The very important
law-suit they have at the present moment will decide whether a society
engaged by a general, its absolute chief, is freed from every
engagement by a change of generals.

[6] Did not this horrible art calculate well on the influence of the
body? this art that does not awaken man's energy by pain, but enervates
it by diet and the misery of dungeons! (See Mabillon's Treatise on
Monastic Prisons.) The revelations of the prisoners of Spielberg have
enlightened us upon this head.

[7] The affairs at Avignon, Sens, Poictiers, though the guilty parties
have been but slightly punished, permit us to hope that the law will at
length awake. We read in one of the newspapers of Caen: "A report was
current yesterday at the _palais_, that the _procureur-general_ was
going to evoke not only the affair of the sequestration of Sister
Marie, but also that of Sister Ste-Placide, about whose removal the
_avocat-general_, So