The same
disposition is apparent throughout the department, as, for instance,
with the Benedictines of Cluny except one, all the Minimes but
three, all the Capuchins but five, the Bernandins, Dominicans, and
Augustins, all preferring to leave. -- Montalembert, "Les Moines
d'Occident," introduction, pp. 105-164. Letter of a Benedictine of
Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s to a Benedictine of Vannes. "Of all the
members of your congregation which come here to lodge, I have
scarcely found one capable of edifying us. You may probably say the
same of those who came to you from our place." -- Cf. in the
"M?moires" of Merlin de Thionville the description of the Chartreuse
of Val St. Pierre.
[41] Ch. Guerin, "Revue des Questions Historiques" (July 1, 1875;
April 1, 1876). -- Abb? Guett?e, "Histoire de l'Eglise de France,"
XII, 128. ("Minutes of the meeting of l'Assembl?e du Clerg?," in
1780.) -- "Archives nationales," official reports and memorandums of
the States-General in 1789. The most obnoxious proceeding to the
chiefs of the order is the postponement of the age at which vows may
be taken, it being, in their view, the ruin of their institutions.
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