Jacques-André ÉMERY (1732-1811), superior of the Sulpicians, - Lot 546

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Jacques-André ÉMERY (1732-1811), superior of the Sulpicians, - Lot 546
Jacques-André ÉMERY (1732-1811), superior of the Sulpicians, incarcerated during the Revolution, he tried to reconcile Church and State. L.A.S. to Mgr Jérôme Champion de Cicé (1735-1810), former archbishop of Bordeaux, in exile. 3 pp. in-4. Dated "January 18". The first part of the letter is devoted to the return of the exiled bishops. He gives his feelings on the question and gives news of the intentions of several of them (archbishops of Toulouse, Auch, Luçon, etc.). He then evokes his fate during the Revolution. "You are very good, Monseigneur, to give some praise to the conduct that I held during the revolution. I held firm to my position until violence took me away from it. The five communities of S.S. [Saint-Sulpice] continued their exercises a year after all the others had been dissipated and did not stop until after the tenth of August. I was in my house during the massacre of September 2. I continued to live in it and to keep all the effects of the seminary which were still in their entirety until the following June when I was arrested, taken to different prisons and fixed in that of the revolutionary tribunal which I occupied for nearly 18 months and of which I became twice the dean. But my most sensitive persecution came from my way of seeing and thinking about different formulas proposed by the government as a condition for the free exercise of worship. I have always seen and thought like all the bishops who remained in France: but you know what they thought elsewhere. No human consideration has been able to divert me from following the feeling that I have [] ".
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