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under the signature of Ver Rongeur. ]\I. Dupanloup, a man of 

 culture, a prelate destined to become a member of the Académie 

 Française, stigmatized tliis barbarous obscurantism, Avliich, with- 

 al, is no part of the Roman traditions. lie has always taken 

 sides with political liberty, so long as people refrained from the 

 indiscretion of claiming it for Rome. We shall sec shortly that 

 the bishop of Orleans has verged very closely upon the party of 

 violence, in the struggles of these last years. He is called some- 

 thing of a Gallican. It is pretty hard to see in what his Gallican- 

 ism consists. The Abbe Cœur, bishop of Troj'cs, since dead, 

 Monseigneur Sibour, archbishop of Paris, who was struck by the 

 dagger of an assassin at the very moment when he had instituted 

 a prosecution against the Univers for its extravagant polemics, 

 were men of like tendency. 



Three men have especiall}' made their mark in the Liberal- 

 Catholic party First, the two old disciples of Lamennais, the 

 Abbé Lacordaire and M. de Monlalembert. The lirst had revived 

 the festivals of high eloquence under the vault of Notre Damo. 

 It was all very well to hold him in suspicion and at some distance 

 on account of his association with Lamennais ; but no sooner 

 had he uttered his voice in the little chapel of Stanislas college, 

 than his superb eloquence rang through Paris after such a foshiou, 

 that there was nothing else to be done, in spite of the monstrous 

 outcries of bigotry, but to put him into the pulpit of the metropoli- 

 tan church. Every precaution was taken. He was required to 

 communicate in advance the plans of his discourses, but onco 

 abandoned to the passion of his inspiration, the torrent carried 

 everything before it, and they looked in vain, the next day, in tho 

 archbishop's chancery, to detect in the fieiy improvisation of tho 

 orator any trace of the plan that had been submitted and approved. 

 He skirted along perilous gulfs without ever falling into them; 

 but the spirit which animated liim was altogether mo;k'ru and 

 liberal. 



His favorite enterprise of reviving the Dominican Order in 

 France, is well known. But his white monk's robe made only 

 one more contrast with his wholly unclerical manner of think- 



