Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
National Gazette
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
Following the French Revolution, 122,600 male religious personnel and 73,000 female religious were discharged from cloisters and similar institutions in France, totaling 195,000. Many reportedly became industrious citizens, finding usefulness to humanity as a way to please God.
Clipping
OCR Quality
Full Text
What sub-type of article is it?
What keywords are associated?
Where did it happen?
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
France
Event Date
Since The Revolution
Outcome
195,000 religious personnel discharged; many became industrious citizens
Event Details
The whole number of religious male drones turned out of cloisters, cells, cathedrals, &c. in France, (not including the regular clergy) amounts to 122,600 persons. The number of she-sluggards, nuns, abbesses, holy sisters, &c, discharged from their gloomy retirements since the revolution, is 73,000 persons; in the whole, 195,000. Many of those, it is said, are now become industrious citizens, and exhibit in their conduct, that the most likely way to please God, is to render themselves useful to man.