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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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On February 12 in Paris, the French National Assembly, after a two-day debate, decrees the suppression of monastic vows and all religious orders requiring them, providing pensions and retreats for affected religious, while excepting educational and charitable houses and allowing nuns to remain in convents.
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Paris, February 12.
SUPPRESSION OF MONACHISM!
At length the mighty exploit of civil prowess is achieved—the national assembly of France, after a debate of two days, in which reason and eloquence combated against bigotry and clamor, have adopted the following memorable decree:
"The National Assembly decrees, as a constitutional article, that the law shall not authorize monastic vows from persons of either sex; declares in consequence, that all religious orders which exact such vows, are and shall for ever continue suppressed in France, to the exclusion of any similar establishments in future.
All the religious of either sex may, on making a declaration to their municipality, quit their cloister, and proper pensions shall be without delay provided for their support, as well as houses of retreat for those who do not desire to avail themselves of the liberty granted.
The Assembly excepts houses charged with education or charity, until it shall finally decide concerning these objects.
The nuns may remain in their own convents, the National Assembly expressly excepting them from the operation of that decree which enjoins the union of several houses into one."
M. L'Abbe Montequiou was the author of the decree we have reported above, which was carried by a great majority.
Thus, in the first Catholic country of the world, is the axe at length laid to the root of that tree which in its baneful shade nourished so many noisome reptiles, while it withered the blossoms of humanity—which has so long impoverished the nutriment of industry by its growth, and so widely darkened the views of intellect by its luxuriance.
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Paris
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February 12
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suppression of all religious orders exacting monastic vows; pensions and retreats provided for religious; exceptions for educational/charitable houses and nuns remaining in convents; decree carried by great majority.
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The National Assembly of France, after a two-day debate, adopted a decree prohibiting monastic vows for either sex and suppressing all such religious orders permanently. Religious may declare to quit cloisters with pensions or retreats provided. Exceptions for houses of education or charity pending decision, and nuns may stay in convents without union. Authored by M. L'Abbe Montequiou.