Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion

Series: Oxford History of the Christian Church

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France A reconstruction of the complex hierarchical world of the Gallican Church, destroyed by the French Revolution. This volume explores all aspects of the relations of Church and State including the wealth of the clergy, their role in official life, in the Court at Versailles and on the scaffold.