CHAPTER XV

CHOISEUL

The French Method--Purpose of the Enemy--Preliminary Accusations--Voltaire's testimony--La Vallette--La Chalotais--Seizure of Property--Auto da fé of the Works of Lessius, Suárez, Valentia, etc.--Appeal of the French Episcopacy--Christophe de Beaumont--Demand for a French Vicar--"Sint ut sunt aut non sint"--Protest of Clement XIII--Action of Father La Croix and the Jesuits of Paris-- Louis XV signs the Act of Suppression--Occupations of dispersed Jesuits--Undisturbed in Canada--Expelled from Louisiana--Choiseul's Colonization of Guiana 478-503

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