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description: Excerpt from The Story of the War in La Vendee and the Little Chouannerie I! Is commonly argued by writers on the French Revolution that the state of the Church as well as of the nation in general must have been exceedingly corrupt and that both clergy and people were equally destitute of religious belief and of moral principle or so total a disruption of all the bonds of society could never have taken place attended an it was with circumstances of unprewdented confusion and horror; and they point to the fact of priests and religious and even bishops openly apostatising from Christianity and abandoning themselves to all the infamous license of the times and the atrocious crimes perpetrated by a people so lately in profession at least Catholic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
language: English
title: The Story of the War in La Vendee, and the Little Chouannerie
publisher: Forgotten Books