Chapter XIII: In the Marne

Reims--The capital of the French kings--Clotilde and Clovis, Jeanne
d'Arc and Urban II.--Vineyards and factories--The wines of
Champagne known and unknown--The red wine of Bouzy--Mr.
Canning and still Champagne--The syndication of famous brands--A
visit to the cardinal archbishop--Employers and employed--The
Catholic workmen's clubs and the Christian corporations--M.
Léon Harmel--The religious education of a factory--How the
workmen Christianised themselves--The conversion of a wife by
a gown--The local authorities discouraging religion--'Planting
Christians like vines'--'The Rights of Man' and capital and
labour--Mediæval and modern methods compared--Capital and
universal suffrage--Money in the first Revolution--Le Pelletier,
the millionaire, and the mobs of the Palais Royal--The dramatic
justice of a murder--Unwritten chapters of revolutionary history--The
duty of employers--'The Masters' Catechism'--The invasion
of 1870 and the Christian corporations--Modern syndications and
the ancient _maîtrise_--Professional syndicates and professional
strikes--Good out of evil--The working men and the upper classes--Count
Albert de Mun--A popular vote against universal suffrage--The
Holy See and the Catholic labour movement in France--The
parochial clergy and the laymen--The Wesleyans and the
Catholics--Privileged purveyors--The financial aspect of the
Catholic corporations--A revival of the old guilds--The national
system of the corporations--Provincial and general assemblies--The
German _Cultur-Kampf_ and the French Catholic clubs--The
Republican attack on religion--Religious freedom and freedom
from religion--The State church of unbelief--The 'moral unity'
men--Napoleon and Guizot--The Jacobins of 1792 and 1879--Moral
unity under Louis XIV.--Alva and M. Jules Ferry--A
chapter of the Revolution at Reims--Mr. Carlyle's little 'murder
of about eight persons'--The political influence of massacres--The
'days of September' and the elections to the Convention--How
they chose Jacobin deputies at Reims--The documentary
story of the eight murders--Mayors under the Republic--The
defence of Lille--How the Republic voted a monument and Louis
Philippe built it--Desecration of a great cathedral--The legend of
Ruhl and the sacred ampulla--The demolition of St.-Nicaise and
the bargain of Santerre--How Napoleon disciplined the Faubourg
St.-Antoine--Is the Cathedral of Reims in danger?--Its restoration
under the cardinal archbishop--The budget of public worship--Expenses
of the administration--The salaries of the clergy, Protestant
and Catholic--Jewish rabbis paid less than servants in the
Ministère--Steady cutting down of the budget--No statistics of religious
opinion in France--A Benedictine archbishop--Great increase of
the religious sentiment in Reims--The Church driven by the
Republic into opposition--Léon Say and the present Government--The
home of Montaigne--A deputy of the Dordogne invalidated
to snub Léon Say--Socrates and David Hume in modern France--Dogmatic
irreligion--Jules Simon on the proscription of Christianity--Abolishing
the history of France--A practical protest of
the Catholic Marne--The great pope of the crusades--Catholic
and Masonic processions--The Triduum of Urban II.--A great
celebration at Châtillon--Hildebrand and his disciple--The
Angelus and the 'Truce of God'--Mgr. Freppel on the anti-religious
war--Jeanne d'Arc at Reims--A magnificent festival--Gounod's
Mass of the Maid of Orléans--Catholic protest against
the persecution of the Jews--The Republic threatens the grand
rabbis with the archbishops--Deriding a death-bed in a
hospital--The amnesty of the Communards--The rehabilitation of
crime--Tyranny in the village schools--Religious freedom in
France and Turkey--The home of Jeanne d'Arc--'Laicising'
Domrémy-la-Pucelle--Piety and hypnotism--The chamber and garden of
Jeanne--Louis XI. and the French yeomen--A shrine converted
into a show--A scurvy job in a place of pilgrimage--The banner
of Patay--Jeanne and her voices--A western worshipper of the
Maid of Orléans--The Château de Bourlémont--The Princesse
d'Hénin and Madame de Staël--The revolutionary traffic in passports--A
generous act of Madame Du Barry--'Laicisation' in the
Vosges--The defeat of Jules Ferry--The Monarchists going up,
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