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The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1907
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World History
C. Decree Upon Dangerous Priests.
October 20–21, 1793. (29–30 Vendémiaire, Year II). Duvergier, Lois, VI, 241–242.
Duvergier, J. B., et al. Collection complète des lois, decrets, ordonnances, reglements, avis du Conseil d’État. Second ed. of vols. 1–31 inclusive. First ed., 32— Paris 1834–.
1. Priests subject to deportation and taken with arms in their hands, either upon the frontiers or in the country of the enemy;
Those who shall have been or shall be discovered in possession of permits or passports delivered by French émigré leaders, or by commanders of enemies’ armies, or by leaders of the rebels;
And those who shall be provided with any counter-revolutionary symbols, shall be delivered within twenty-four hours to the executioner of condemned criminals and put to death, after the facts shall have been declared proven by a military commission formed by the officers of the staff of the division within the area of which they shall have been arrested.
2. Those who have been or who shall be arrested without arms in the countries occupied by the troops of the Republic shall be tried in the same form and punished by the same penalty, if they have been previously in the armies of the enemy or in the musters of émigrés or insurgents, or if they were there at the moment of their arrest.
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5. Those of these ecclesiastics who shall return and those who have returned to the territory of the Republic shall be sent to the court house of the criminal tribunal of the department within the area of which they shall have been or shall be arrested; and, after having undergone examination, of which record shall be kept, they shall be delivered within twenty-four hours to the executioner of condemned criminals and put to death, after the judges of the tribunal shall have declared that the prisoners are convicted of having been subjects of deportation.
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10. Those declared subjects for deportation, trial and punishment, as such, are the bishops, former archbishops, curés kept in place, vicars of these bishops, superiors and directors of seminaries, vicars of the curés, professors of seminaries and colleges, public instructors, and those who shall have preached in any churches whatsoever since the decree of February 5, 1791, who shall not have taken the oath prescribed by article 39 of the decree of July 24, 1790. . . . . . or who have retracted it, although they may have taken it again since their retraction;
All secular or regular ecclesiastics and convert and lay brothers, who have not complied with the decrees of August 14, 1792, and April 21st, last, or who have retracted their oath;
And finally all those who have been denounced because of incivism, when the denunciation shall have been pronounced valid, in conformity with the decree of the said 21st day of April.
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12. The ecclesiastics who have taken the oath prescribed by the decrees of July 24 and November 27, 1790, as well as that of liberty and equality, within the fixed time, and who shall be denounced because of incivism, shall be embarked without delay and transferred to the east coast of Africa from the twenty-third to the twenty-eighth degree south.
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17. Priests deported voluntarily and with passports . . are reputed émigrés.
18. Every citizen is required to denounce the ecclesiastic whom he shall know to be subject to deportation, to arrest him or cause him to be arrested and conducted before the nearest police officer; he shall receive a hundred livres reward.
19. Every citizen who shall conceal a priest subject to deportation shall be condemned to the same penalty.
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Chicago:
Duvergier, J. B., ed., "C. Decree Upon Dangerous Priests.," The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1907 in The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1907, ed. Frank Maloy Anderson (New York: Russell Russell, 1908), 135–137. Original Sources, accessed July 12, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UXFPGVS7I2118E3.
MLA:
. "C. Decree Upon Dangerous Priests." The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1907, edited by Duvergier, J. B., Vol. VI, in The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1907, edited by Frank Maloy Anderson, New York, Russell Russell, 1908, pp. 135–137. Original Sources. 12 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UXFPGVS7I2118E3.
Harvard:
(ed.), 'C. Decree Upon Dangerous Priests.' in The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1907. cited in 1908, The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1907, ed. , Russell Russell, New York, pp.135–137. Original Sources, retrieved 12 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UXFPGVS7I2118E3.
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