local aristocracy of his diocese.]
[Footnote 5214: "Memorial," July 31, 1816.]
[Footnote 5215: Both systems, set forth with rare impartiality and
clearness, may be found in "L'Eglise et l'Etat au concile du Vatican,"
by Emile Ollivier, I., chs. II. and III.]
[Footnote 5216: Bercastel et Henrion, XIII., p. 14. (Letter of M.
d'Avian, archbishop of Bordeaux, October 28, 1815.) "A dozen consecutive
Popes do not cease, for more than one hundred and thirty years,
improving that famous Declaration of 1682."]
[Footnote 5217: Ernile Olliver, ibid., I. 315-319. (Declarations of
the French provincial councils and of foreign national and provincial
councils before 1870.)--Cf. M. de Montalembert, "Des Interets
Catholiques," 1852, ch. II. and VI. "The ultramontane doctrine is the
only true one. The great Count de Maistre's ideas in his treatise on the
Pope have become commonplace for all Catholic youth."--Letter of Mgr.
Guibert, February 22, 1853. "Gallicanism no longer exists."--"Diary in
France," by Chris. Wordsworth, D.D., 1845. "There are not two bishops in
France who are not ultramontane, that is to say devoted to the interests
of the Roman See."]
[Footnote 5218: "Constitutio dogmatica prima de Ecclesia Christi,"
July 18, 1870. "Ejusmodi romani pontificis definitiones ex sese, non ex
consensu Ecclesiae irreformabiles esse." (ch. IV.)]
[Footnote 5219: Ibid., ch. III. "Si quis dixerit romanum pontificem
habere tantummodo officium inspectionis vel directionis, non autem
plenam et supremam potestatem juridictionis in universam Ecclesiam,
non solum in rebus quae ad fidem et mores, sed etiam in iis quae ad
disciplinam et regimen Ecclesiae per totum orbem diffusae pertinent; aut
etiam habere tantum potiores partes, non vero totam plenitudinem hujus
supremae potestatis, aut hanc ejus potestatem non esse ordinariam et
immediatam..."]
[Footnote 5220: Ibid., ch. III. "Aberrant a recto veritatis tramite
qui affirmant licere ab judiciis Romanorum pontificum ad oecumenicum
concilium, tanquam ad auctoritatem romano pontifice superiorem,
appellare."]
[Footnote 5221: "Almanach national de 1889." (Among these four, one only
belongs to a historic family, Mgr. de Deux-Breze of Moulins.)]
[Footnote 5222: See "The Ancient Regime," pp. 65, 120, 150, 292. (Ed.
Laffont I. pp. 53-43, 92-93, 218,219.)]
[Footnote 5223: Cf. the history of the parliaments of Grenoble and
Rennes on the approach of the Revolution. Remark the fidelity of a
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