Étienne Alexandre BERNIER (1762-1806), a Catholic priest and - Lot 284

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Étienne Alexandre BERNIER (1762-1806), a Catholic priest and - Lot 284
Étienne Alexandre BERNIER (1762-1806), a Catholic priest and leader of the Vendée, he was one of the plenipotentiaries in charge of the Concordat. L.A.S. to Champion de Cicé, 2 pp. in-4. Paris, December 29, 1801. Rare letter written at the time of the signing of the Concordat. "Do not wait in a foreign land for the result of the events. It is in your Fatherland that you must learn them. Come back as soon as possible. If you fear that this return will be misinterpreted by men of party, choose any other domicile than Paris while waiting for the events, but return to France. You will enter more into the views that one can have for the good of the Church by doing so. He received his letter and told him his feelings. "The government has not retained in principle a general translation. It will place the bishops in those places where they can personally do good []. This news which has been given as certain is one of the thousand conjectures which the desire to know or the desire to appear to know has given rise to. I do not know of any basis for it [] ". Rare.
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