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when he walks m a purple robe." — " No, no," said he at another 

 time, " I do not believe that fire has ever had power to conquer 

 an idea, however false and detestable it mii^ht be." 



Nothiiiî; can be more touching than the resii^naliou of M. O/a- 

 nani, when he found that he must give up in early manhood all 

 that gave life its value — the purest domestic happiness, a most 

 noble and useful career, a most brilliant future. I know nothing 

 more admirable tliaii the story of his death, as told by Father 

 Lacordaire. 



Among the men holding the same views, we may mention the 

 Prince de Broglie, the illustrious representative of one of the 

 most distinguished families in France. Grandson of Madame de 

 StUel, son of that Duke de Broglie who was one of the purest and 

 strongest types of the liberal and Christian statesman, the inflex- 

 ible upholder of justice, M. A. de Broglie has nobl}' sustained this 

 formidable inheritance. An eminent historian of the Church of 

 the fourth century, his talent is never more conspicuous than in 

 religious or political controvei-sy. lie brings to that work a lofty 

 irony which gives to his eloquence a singularly incisive character. 

 It is evident that he has not breathed the stormy atmosphere of 

 the school of Lamennais. Liberty has come to him as an undis- 

 puted heir-loom. lie lays claim to it with less of passion, and 

 sometimes with less of breadth than M. de Montalembert, but, 

 withal, is not in the least liable to the reproach of any political 

 inconsistency. 



As for the liberalism of M. dc Falloux, he holds it neither by 

 family tradition, nor through the Lamennaisian apostolical suc- 

 cession. By nature, by association, he belongs to the purest le- 

 gitimism, lie wrote the life of Pius V., the Inquisitor, and 

 declared in that book that tolerance is the virtue of the unbeliev- 

 ing ages. We should hardly look, then, to find in him a liberal 

 from conviction. Nevertheless, after the coujy d'état, he made a 

 clean broach with absolutist Catholicism, and took rank among the 

 defenders of public liberty. The Correspondant, a monthly mag- 

 azine, has become the organ of this great Liberal- Catholic party, 

 and its remarkable success is due to him. 



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