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left leg, was faid to have hurt the other by- 

 tumbling on the tomb, which gave rife to an 

 epigram by the Duchefs de Maine; 



Un decroteur a la Royale, 

 Du talon gauche eftropie, 

 Obtint pour grace fpeciale 

 D'etre boiteux de I'autre pie. 



The infatuation continued, with increafing force, 

 almoft five years, during which the controverfy 

 was carried on fo fiercely, as to occafion feveral 

 divifions among the defenders of the miracles 

 themfelves ; fuch as Auguilinifts, Vaillantiits, 

 Secourifts, Difcernants, Figurifls, Melangifts, 

 &c.* names, fays my author, worthy of a place 

 with thofe of Umbilicifts, Ifcariotifls, Stereo- 

 rifts, Indorfians, Orebites, Eonians, and other 

 fedls equally illuftrious. Government at length 

 found it necefTary to interpofe; the tomb was 

 blocked up and guarded, (for the Abbe Paris 

 produced no miracle efficacious againft a fixed 

 bayonet) and Montgeron was imprifoned, very 

 foon after prefenting his book. Thefe meafures 

 did not ftop the controverfy, however, or dimi- 

 nifh the credit of the miracles : Voltaire fays, 

 the latter continued for thirty years fucceflively. 

 It is eafy to perceive, that this whole bufinefs 

 was contrived to fupport the party of the ap- 

 pellants, who oppofed the Bull Unigenitus, 



• Encydoped. Art. Convulfionnaires. 



attempted 



