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public functionaries and the most eminent merchants of the capital enrolled amongst its members : ui sfejort , f ^ - ' Mefia ^ neA v ^ . ^ mB ^ A . on the saipe footing as ^ ^ p ^ tmliG Church , ifciat rival that suqh an assimilation would , a little while , before , have highly incensed .
The new , Consistory of the Reforihed Church of Paris was nominated bv virtue of a decree , of the First Consul , given on the 12 th of Frimaire , year XI ., ( Dec . 3 , 1802 , ) a decree which
organized that Church by declaring it conszstoriaf s by granting to it three places of worship and three pastors , and by confirnaiiig the present minister , and even rendering his office more secure . As senior minister , he became
President of the Consistory . Of the terete temples two only have hitherto been used- —St . L * Quis-du-Louvre 9 ( for the occupation of which the Protestants , ceased to pay a rent , and for wliich the Church of the Oratory has since been substituted , ) and Les Filles
St . Marie in the Rue St . Antoine . The third building—Pnnthemont—was not at first vacant , and has since been used for various purposes , without having been claimed by 4 he Consistory . The first object of consideration was the salary of the ministers , which could not be continued the same as that with
which M . Marron had been satisfied ; after passing a liberal resolution on this subject , the Consistory nominated , as colleagues of ttieir present pastor , M . Rabaut-Pomier , formerly minister of the Church at Montpellier , but at tjhat time Sub-Prefect in Vigan , and
M . Mestrezat , the pastpr at Bale , both of whom accepted the call , and were successively installed in their office by M . Marron . On the 1 st of May , 1303 , M . Mestrezat performed the dedication * & the tejnple in the Rue St . Atitoine M ~ lyiawxon preached there on the follovtdng S ^ inday . Alluding , in his
discourse , to the spot on which the new temple was erected , he spoke ^ dth gratitude of > the security in whicH the Protestants there met , under the auspices of a tutelar government , between the two greatest objects of terror to their ancestors—the Jesui t * on one side , and the Bastille on the otb £ r ; both df which had ceased to exist . | lr Marron and his colleagues shortly , recehed a ft ^ k ^ tiii % » y of He % op #$ l 0 f : # & head of the government : they were all
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throe nptade Members of the Legion of Honour , at the very institution of that order * ' * 0 J@y w&e afterwtt ^ silp ^ siderifs iffifyfy ^^ t ^ rjr * « gpfe $ * o assist at ^ the cc ^ e ^^ itln of Napoteon and Josljihiiie , on the 2 nd 6 i Deceiriber , 1804 . ¦
A circumstance wmcji must not bis passed over in silence took plicfe immediately before the coronation ; the Archbishop of Besan § on * Xl ^ e ^ o ^) brought to Paris by that memorable
event , signalized , his , arrival by writing to require the President of the Consistory to proclaim at t £ & conjuncture the long-desired re-union of ^ the two Churches . The proposal was abrupt , though expre ^ s ^ d in the most brothe rly terms : it seemed to point out as the
only means of re-umon the return of the Protestants within the pale df the Catholic comnauiuon . The juncture was embarrassing , and suggested the idea that the proposition ' might proceed from higher authority ; Marron , however , gave an immediate reply , and he considered it his duty to reply in a
manner that would not strengthen the hopes which the Prelate -evidently cherished : this answer was giy 0 ii by M . Marron on his own responsibility ; his colleagues sent their replies some days afterwards . The correspondence has been printed . M . Lecos madeiio further communication , and there the
affair ended . The youngest of the Parisian pastors was , the first that was snatched'from his people $ M . Mestrezat died May 8 , 1807 , at 47 years of age . B ^; the unanimous suffrages of the Consjjitbiy ; Jtf . Monod , * ( of Geneva ) , pastdrttt Copenhagen , was appointed to succeed him . During the life of M . Mesjtnezat , and ever since , the three ' pastorpiof the Reformed Church of Paris have vied
with each other in brotherly love aad in zeal ; and they have all along || 9 j J the satisfaction of reaping some fruit of their relirioiis labours . \ Besides the studies and duties of to profession ; M . Marron ha $ found considerable c ^ cupatipn ^ in contributi ^ to various " vMt i ^ t ^ J ^^ c ^ lc ^ : pii % Msliea ^ 7 n France a £ 4 i ^ HMwS ^ w fJ ^ compositor of poeras rffl 'Mtim . f language ^ ha ^ % ; ' ; " ({ t ¦'{"'*<) '" . * ' 1 * , ? , ' )'•' " ' i . " n ' ' 't *
. The trsuttslator of thte aartide regref having no ., fiirther particularjs ofjhej ^ e of thte ^ WeiP ^ t ^ i ^^ Monthly Repoaitory .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/10/
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