lerics

In the first three editions La Bruyère adds a note: 'Ecclesiastics.' He refers to the preachers in charge of the forcible conversion of Protestants after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

Note from Of The Pulpit, the fifteenth chapter of 'Characters' by Jean De La Bruyere (1688)

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