his bureau.
After his death, a quantity of paper scraps, in Latin or French, written
and placed there by him-were found, dedicating this or that action,
journey or undertaking under the special patronage of the Virgin or St.
Joseph. He also possessed a statuette of Our Lady of Lourdes which never
was out of his sight, day or night. "One day, having gone out of
his palace, he suddenly returned, having forgotten something--he had
neglected to kiss the feet of his Heavenly Mother."--Cf. "Vie de Mgr.
Dupanloup," Abbe Lagrange, I., 524. "During his mother's illness, he
multiplied the novenas, visited every altar, made vows, burnt candles,
for not only had he devotion, but devotions... On the 2d of January,
1849, there was fresh alarm; thereupon, a novena at Saint-Genevieve and
a vow--no longer the chaplet, but the rosary. Then, as the fete of Saint
Francois de Sales drew near a new novena to this great Savoyard saint;
prayers to the Virgin in Saint-Sulpice; to the faithful Virgin; to the
most wise Virgin, everywhere."]

[Footnote 5281: "Manreze du pretre," I., 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, 91, 92,
244, 246, 247, 268.]

[Footnote 5282: Ibid. I., 279, 281, 301, 307, 308, 319.]

[Footnote 5283: Just like the believing faithful 20th century
international revolutionary Marxist-communist. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5284: "Le clerge francaise en 1890" (by an anonymous
ecclesiastic), p. 72. (On the smaller parishes.) "The task of the cure
here is thankless if he is zealous, too easy if he has no zeal. In any
event, he is an isolated man, with no resources whatever, tempted by all
the demons of solitude and inactivity."--Ibid.,,92. "Our authority among
the common classes as well as among thinking people is held in check;
the human mind is to-day fully emancipated and society secularized."--
Ibid., 15. "Indifference seems to have retired from the summits of the
nation only to descend to the lower strata.... In France, the priest is
the more liked the less he is seen; to efface himself, to disappear is
what is first and most often demanded of him. The clergy and the nation
live together side by side, scarcely in contact, through certain actions
in life, and never intermingling."]

CHAPTER III THE CLERGY

I. The regular clergy.

The regular clergy.--Difference in the condition of the two
clergies.--The three vows.--Rules.--Life in common.--Object
of the system.--Violent suppression of the institution and
its abuses