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    The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (French: Constitution civile du clergé) was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that sought...
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  • The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (French: "Constitution civile du clergé") was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that caused...
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    abolished both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate (the nobility) and the tithes gathered by the First Estate (the Catholic clergy). The old judicial...
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    to establish some basis of cooperation with her. In March 1791 Pope Pius VI had condemned the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, reluctantly signed by Louis...
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    the structure of the new French government through the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. One of the new requirements placed upon all clergy was the necessity...
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    employ the priests who had accepted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of the revolutionary regime. While the Concordat restored much power to the papacy...
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  • Non-juror (redirect from Nonjuring clergy)
    swear an oath of allegiance to the state under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy; also known as refractory clergy, priests and bishops In American...
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  • Assembly published the Civil Constitution of the Clergy that stripped clerics of their special rights—the clergy were to be made employees of the state, elected...
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    Legislative Assembly (France) (category 1791 events of the French Revolution)
    Enforcement of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy: on 29 November 1791, the Assembly decreed that every nonjuring clergyman who did not take the civic oath...
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    signing of the "Civil Constitution of the Clergy", Louis had been described as a martyr by Pope Pius VI in 1793. In 1820, however, a memorandum of the Congregation...
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    despite revolutionary decrees to the contrary. It was this determined resistance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the dechristianisation campaigns...
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    represented the re-establishment of religious worship in France with the repeal of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, the Concordat of 1801, and Napoleon's...
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    First White Terror (category 1794 events of the French Revolution)
    supporters of the Girondins, those who opposed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and those otherwise hostile to the Jacobin political agenda. The Great...
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    Jureur (category Clergy)
    During the French Revolution, members of the clergy who agreed to swear an oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy were called prêtres jureurs (juring...
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    Caesaropapism, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy required all Roman Catholic priests to transfer their allegiance from the Holy See to the Constitution and,...
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    employ the priests who had accepted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy of the Revolutionary regime. While the Concordat restored much power to the papacy...
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    Représentant en mission (category 1793 events of the French Revolution)
    conscription into the army and resentment of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Such inspectors had existed in some form under the Ancien Régime, but...
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  • Constitutional bishopric (category Religion and the French Revolution)
    the French Revolution, a constitutional bishop was a Catholic bishop elected from among the clergy who had sworn to uphold the Civil Constitution of the...
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    enthusiastic about the Revolution, he became disenchanted with the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and retired to his estates in Beaupreau. He was the second commander...
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    France (redirect from Republic of france)
    1789, the Assembly decided to nationalise and sell all property of the Church, the largest landowner. In July 1790, a Civil Constitution of the Clergy reorganised...
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  • cockades. Civil Constitution of the Clergy (Constitution civile du clergé) – 1790, confiscated Church lands and turned the Catholic clergy into state...
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    Henri Grégoire (category Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration)
    role in the abolition of the privileges of the nobility and the Church. Under the new Civil Constitution of the Clergy, to which he was the first priest...
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  • Red Priests (France) (category Religion and the French Revolution)
    to the Constitutional Church, exceeding 80% in 27 departments. In the list of clergy deputies who adhered to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, we...
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  • of the abolition of feudalism in France, which covers the period of the Revolution from the abolition of feudalism to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy...
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    National Constituent Assembly (France) (category 1789 events of the French Revolution)
    to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy French Revolution from the summer of 1790 to the establishment of the Legislative Assembly For a list of presidents...
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    Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    the outbreak of the French Revolution Étienne-Charles returned to France, and took the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, one of the...
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    The Society of the Friends of the Constitution (French: Société des amis de la Constitution), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom...
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    Chouannerie (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia)
    to 1800. The uprising was provoked principally by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790), which attempted to impose Caesaropapism upon the Catholic...
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    to the government, known as the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. June 8: The Assembly orders the raising of an army of twenty thousand volunteers to...
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    church, he refused to take the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, and went to Ettenheim, in the German part of his diocese. In exile, he spent what...
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