Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-05-08

Dom. bouquet versus Tristan

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! Dom. bouquet versus Tristan SI,andy.
! it appears from very brisk controversy
Which has just taken place in Paris, that the
teSt Of the accommodation q: found in
Stcrne's Tristan .handy is not fictitious The
English humorist having taken 4 fancy to in
troduce into his work the terrible Bull in
question, merely copied it from an authentic
version.
| The controversy took place under the follow
! inc circumstances: The journal lie Steele
having published, with several other Paris
papers, Il form Of communication, pur-
porting 10 be that employed 10y the Church
Of Rome in the middle ages, the Monde, an
ultra Montana paper pointed with great glee
TO the fact that these journals had been the
victims Of malicious nlystification, showing
that il was copied from Sterne'S Tristan
Shandy, chapter 81: "What are we to think,
added the 'Monde,J OF journals who could
have received rs authentic Il paper so mani
rcsty ridiculous and falsifed:" ''.ind how
can organs of public opinion, which, through
ignorance or connvance, indulge in such un-
scemly rleasantrics suppose that any one can
discuss a matter with them seriously"
As may be supposed, the Steele did not
choose to submit quietly to this minor anathe-
ma, and returned the bolt in the following
manner: I'VE declare that we never had for
moment the idea of jcsting about 50 serious a
thingas an accommodation. The form which
we reproduced was taken from DOM Martin
Bouquet, priest and monk Of the congregation
OF ST. Maur, who published it in l74l, in the
fourth volume of the RecncH dcs Uistoir6s des
CauIrs ct le Ii France, page Glo. DOM
Bouquet, copied it from Eticnnc Balceze, pro-
fessor Of Canon Law in the College dc France,
who published il in the year 1GT771 in the second
volume or his Capit"laires, pages GO and $50,
under the f6'm"i0 ccis,rS rrror"ism"a"m ct
! e.rcdmmvnicdtior"m.
! The "Upinion Rationale" which Was also
comprised in the "MondcS" rcbuke, comes for
| ward in earnest. After having taken the
trouble of going to the library Of the Arsenal,
and there having read the Bull in question IN
| Dom. B"u1uet'S works, ii eyclaiins: "lecl-
! Gcdly We arc more unwcll than is generally
! knnwn. The ultra Montanes themselves deny
the Papacy Here is the Monde treating as
! ridiculous aud indecent the formula OF the
middle ages and attributing to an English he
/ retir Of the eighteenth century the PontllIcai
Latin. Not content with this rejoinder, it
! spreads before its readers the text Of another
and more strong accommodation taken from
pages .Ilfi AID n Of Dom. Martenc's Work,
! "Uf 3ntiY"c'x Eccirxin Htibm, U(uarto,
/ l112.J
The "Upinion" rcmarking on the use and
abuse o. such dreadful curses as those con-
tanned in the document it quotes, returns to
those passages of the Holy Scriptures
which inculcate charity and forgiveness. It
then closes its very curious article Win
these words: at is certainly wonderful
book--,hr Bible! Can it be that they
whose duty it is to teach its doctrines will
not scic day or other have the curiosity to
read it, and be tempted to practice its pre-
cepts:''
The stir occasipnc,l by this republication
III ancient text gives us pretty Fair spec'mel
OF religious controversy in France among ''po
itical" newspapers. The debate may be pro
nounccd an alternate crrSing in each organ
! most familiar tune.
( 1t is hardly necessary to state that the late
cxco,nuunication from Plus IN. contains none
! of those violent and odious forms OF o.d;
! is nothing bu, rather dignified protest, ane
! carries along with it nothing bnt the name
/ an accommodation.
Official intelligence has been received m Ne"
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