Henri Grégoire

Such progress along constitutional lines was interrupted first by an accident and then by a tragedy.

At each election, the liberals had gained seats until finally the Abbé Grégoire was returned for Isère.

He was not merely a renegade priest.

He had attacked monarchy as an institution, had used his scriptural knowledge to supply him with libelous epithets for application to Marie Antoinette, and was regarded as largely responsible for the execution of Louis XVI.

Such progress along constitutional lines was interrupted first by an accident and then by a tragedy.

At each election the liberals had gained seats, until finally the Abbé Grégoire was returned for Isère.

He was not merely a renegade priest.

He had attacked monarchy as an institution, had used his scriptural knowledge to supply him with libelous epithets for application to Marie Antoinette, and was regarded as largely responsible for the execution of Louis XVI.

Such progress along constitutional lines was interrupted first by an accident and then by a tragedy.

At each election the liberals had gained seats until finally the Abbé Grégoire was returned for Isère.

He was not merely a renegade priest.

He had attacked monarchy as an institution, had used his scriptural knowledge to supply him with libelous epithets for application to Marie Antoinette, and was regarded as largely responsible for the execution of Louis XVI.

M. Francois de Neufchateau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have the pomme de terre, potato, pronounced Parmentier, and succeeded therein not at all.

The Abbe Gregoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed in the royal palomics to the state of infamous Gregoire.

The locution of which we have made use passed to the state of has been condemned as a neurologism by M. Royer-Collard.

Under the third arch of the Pont d'Augena, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blucher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness.

So, for example, using things like the Revolutionary Tribunal to pursue abolitionists.

And I was shocked that men like Abbe Gregoire, I mean, we've just finished the dechristianization campaign in our main narrative.

Here's a man, Abbe Gregoire, who famously proudly wears his religious clothing in the height of the dechristianization campaign in Paris.

And yet he is so fearful of the colonial lobby that he essentially is walking back his previous support for abolition and kind of going, oh, I was misled.

We can patch this up, et cetera, et cetera.

And so...

Let me stop you there just for a moment on behalf of the poor Abbe Gregoire, who is actually Bishop Gregoire at this point.

That is true, yes.

M. Francois de Neuchateu, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have the pomme de terre potato pronounced Parmentier, and succeeded therein not at all.

The Abbe Gregoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed in the royal polemics to the state of infamous Gregoire.

The locution of which we have made use, passed to the state of, has been condemned as a neurologism by M. Royer-Collard.

Under the third arch of the Pont d'Augena, the new stone, with which, the two years previously, the mining aperture made by Blucher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was still recognizable on account of its whiteness.

Such progress along constitutional lines was interrupted first by an accident and then by a tragedy.

At each election the liberals had gained seats, until finally the Abbé Grégoire was returned for Isère.

He was not merely a renegade priest.

He had attacked monarchy as an institution.