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for the cabinet . " An idea may be formed of the openness of his disposition and the austerity of his principles , by what he said to M . de Harlai , on his nomination to the Archbishoprick of Paris ; - — * ' there is a wide difference , my
Right Reverend Lord , between the day , when the nomination to such an office brings to the party the compliments of the whole kingdom , and the day on which he appears before God , to render him an account of its
administration / ' Mi Olieit , the founder of the congregation of St . Sulpice , engaged the Marquis in an extra * , ordinary projects The law of duelling was once , in France , as it was once in most other
kingdoms of Europe , a part of the civil jurisprudence of the country ; In 1547 r a . duel was fought by the Count Guy Ghabot and the Count of Chaterguer-ai , in * the presence of Henxy the Second and his court . The Count of
Chatergiieivai was mortally wounded ; his death ai&Gt 6 d the monarch so much that he solemnly vowed not to permit another duel . Car-4 mai Richelieu repressed duelling , by some extraordinary examples
of severity ; after his defcth , it burst out with great fury . M . Olier conceived a plaa of ^ supply * if > g the insufficiency of' the law , by putting honour in opposition to itselft With this view he formed
an association of gentlemen of tried valour , who , by a writing sigtoett with their hands , to whiich the solemnity of an oath was-to be added * were to oblige tbcnw
sejves nevec to give or accept a ch&Jlengp ^ and never to serve r S £ copd $ in a duel . The Marquis of Fenelon wa& placed at the head , * fc > ttiM association t and no one
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was admitted into it ^ Wio had not eminently distinguished himself in the service . On the Stiriday of Pentecost , in the year * 16 * , ia the midst of an immeme'tfoiicourse , they assembled in the church of St . Sulpice , and put intathe hands
of Mr . Olier , a solemn instrument , expressing-their firmandtinalterable resolution ^ never to be principals of seconds in a duel , and to discourage duelling to the utmost of their power . The gf £ at Cond § was struck with the proceeding ;
** A person , " he said , to the Marquis of Fenelon , must have the opinion which I Lave of your vaL our , not to be alarmed at seeing you the first to break the ice on such an occasion . ' * ILewis the
Fourteenth seconded the views of the respectable pastor : he took a solem h oath not to pardoi ^ a'duef , and in the course of his reigti published several severe laWs against duelling : by the last of fifettt lie established a court composed of the marshals of France ^ to hear atid determine iall cases of Honour .
They were invested with ample powers , and the severeir penalties wereiuflicted " OTi those , whbsbotild give orAWept-achaHeh ^ e ^ or dither . wtee disobey ^ their deertc ^ ; SHI ) duelling' continued ; and the' or . diniance wad eluded , by the distinction between diiel arfd rrt .
contxe : the latter was stij ^ bSed to hfe unpremeditated , andWaB therefore held nee to fall witktn the laws against duelling * , which Was" supposed to be premeditated . To prevent this
evasioiv Lewis the FifteeftthTpmrlished his ordinance of 1723 , which dQ&p coafirming tfie . lalws * pt 1 && predecessors against duels , provided that though the rencontre were quite sudden andmnpremedi *
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989 ' Anecdotes o / JPenelon and his Family .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/6/
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