Today’s free book is a two-volume set that covers the history of the church in France from 1789-1907 by Cambridge Scholar C S Phillips.
These public domain volumes were digitised from the set held in Spurgeon’s College library.
Contents
- The Church Before the Revolution
- The Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1789-91
- Persecution and Revival, 1791-1801
- Chateaubriand and ‘Le Génie Du Christianisme’
- The Concordatof 1801
- The Breach with the Papacy, 1802-09
- The Pope at Savona and the Cardinals at Paris, 1809-11
- The National Council and the Concordat of Fountainebleau, 1811-14
- The Restoration, 1814-17
- The Concordat of 1817, 1817-20
- The Triumph of Reaction, 1820-30
- The Prophets of the Counter-Revolution—De Maistre: Dr Boanld: Lamennais
- The Story of the ‘Avenir.’ 1830-34
- The Religious Revival under the July Monarchy: Lacordaire, 1834-48
- The Fight for Catholic Education: Montalembert, 1833-48; Epilogue
Contents
- The Rise of Ultramontanism in France
- The Revolution of 1848 and the Rise of Louis Napoleon
- Church and State in the First Years of the Second Empire, 1851-1856
- Ultramontanes and Liberal Catholics, 1851-1857
- Napoleon III. and the Liberation of Italy, 1855-1857
- The Imperial Government, the Catholics and the Pope,1859-18643
- The Congress of Malines, the Syllabus and the Roman Question, 1863-1870
- The Vatican Council, 1869-1870
- The National Assembly and the Church, 1870-1876
- The Campaign against Clericalism, 1876-1884
- The Coming of “Ralliement,” 1884-1894
- The “New Spirit” and the Dreyfus Affair, 1884-1899
- Yje Associations Law and the End of the Concordat, 1899-1905
- The Internal Life of the French Church under Leo XIII
- The Internal Life of the French Church under Leo XIII (continued)
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