APPENDIX 



IMEX AND PARTIES 



IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IX FRANCE, 



JfST BKFORE THE Œci'MENICAL COUNCIL, 1809. 



[The following is part of an Article by the lîev. Edward de Prcssen?é, in the 

 licvue Chrétienne for September and October, 1809. The author of it is the 

 foremost man of French Protestantism— a man of aclinowlcdgcd fairness and 

 ability, and held in hii;h esteem by his fellow-citizens of the Roman Catholic 

 fiith.] 



* " ■* It is important to bear in mind all along-, that avc ai'e 

 only just passed the coup (T état of December, when, with some- 

 thing of an explosion, a division took place in the Catholic camp. 

 We have first a very original figure among the superior clergy ; 

 it is ^Monseigneur Dupanloup, bishop of Orleans. I know that 

 for some years past he has been pardoned many of his old offences 

 at Rome, in consideration of the impetuosity of liis defence of 

 the temporal power of the Pope. Always impetuous, of an effer- 

 vescent temperament, with a quick, lively pen, he is a sort of Bo- 

 hemian bishop, with a decided talent for controversy. The 

 author of several approved works on education, he owes his rep- 

 utation above all to his talent as a controversialist always in the 

 breach. He has taken open issue with the Univers — seemingly, at 

 first, on a merely literary question. A certain Abbé Gaume, since 

 bishop, had taken it into his head to oppose classical studies. 



