The French Ideal; Pascal, Fénelon And Other Essays
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1 In April the little girls at school at Port Royal des Champs were all disbanded by order of the King ; in May the novices and postulants were sent away; on June 8 the Vicars-General of Paris (who were Gallican, in sympathy with Port Royal, yet submissive to the Pope) put forth again the Formu- lary, but prefaced by a Pastoral Letter requiring no more than a " respectful silence " for the point of fact : " que tous demeurent dans le respect entier et sincere qui est du aux dites constitutions,... sans precher, ecrire et disputer au contraire; et que la signature en soit un temoignage . . . Inviolable, par laquelle ils s'y engagent, comme de leur croy- ance pour la decision de foi. " Silence, that is to say, for the point of fact; submission and belief for the point of faith : the old quibble dear to Arnauld and to Pascal. And it was rumoured that Pascal had helped the Vicars-General in the composition of their Pastoral Letter. . . . Jacqueline was alone in command at Port Royal when she received it : she read it in a storm of righteous indignation; she refused to sign : " False prudence, and true 1 See the admirable chapter of Sainte-Beuve in his Port Royal, iii.
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