“_Grâce à Dieu, je n’ai d’attache sur la terre qu’à la seule Église Catholique, Apostolique, Romaine, dans laquelle je veux vivre et mourir, et dans la communion avec le Pape, son souverain chef, hors de laquelle je suis très persuadé qu’il n’y a point de salut._” CHAPTER XIV DECREES AND INDEXES, FRENCH, BELGIAN, BOHEMIAN, ROMAN, AND SPANISH, 1685–1815 1685. Paris. Decrees of Louis XIV 1685–1735 Belgian Indexes 1726–1767 Bohemian Indexes 1670–1800 Editions of Roman Indexes 1815 Madrid. Inquisitor-General. _1._ _1685._ _Paris._ _Decrees of Louis XIV._--In 1685, shortly before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Louis XIV ordered the suppression and destruction of the writings of the Protestants. Harlay, Archbishop of Paris, thereupon published, at the request of the Parliament of Paris, a catalogue of these books which has, as compared with the Roman indexes, a distinctive character of its own. In this list of books condemned and ordered to be destroyed, no reference is made to the Indexes of the Roman series, and, on their part, these Indexes give no consideration to the Paris catalogue. A convention of the clergy held in 1682, published a pastoral letter (_Un Avertissement pastoral_) addressed to those who followed the so-called reformed faith. The purpose of this _Avertissement_ was stated to be a reconciliation with the Church of these backsliders; and it included a _mémoire_ setting forth the different methods that could to advantage be followed in order to bring about the conversion of these heretics. Included in this _mémoire_ is a statement of orthodox doctrine entitled “Doctrine of the Church as contained in its profession of faith and in the Decrees of the Council of Trent as opposed to the calumnies and the false charges spread to the world in the works of the so-called reformers.”