In 1722, seven French bishops appealed to Innocent XIII to revoke the Bull and to summon a general council. Their letter was formally condemned by the Inquisition. Benedict XIII, in a Bull issued in 1724, declares that the doctrines of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas are not affected by the Bull _Unigenitus_. The Pope was personally inclined to enter into further explanations or definitions of the purport of the Bull, but a provincial council, held in Rome in 1725, had taken the ground that the Bull was to be accepted as a rule of faith, and, in 1727, the Pope confirmed the proceedings of a provincial council held at Embrunn, at which council Bishop Soanen of Sénez, one of the most active of the Appellants, had been suspended. As a result of this action of the council and of the approval given to the same by the Pope, the open opposition to the Bull on the part of the French bishops was for the time brought to a close, and in 1730, the faculty of the Sorbonne also gave in its submission. In 1734, the Dominican, Serry, published anonymously, under the title _Theologia Supplex_, an analysis of the purport of the Bull, with reference more particularly to the condemnation of certain of the one hundred and one propositions in which it had not proved practicable to indicate any heretical teaching. This treatise was promptly prohibited, as had been done with Serry’s previous volume on papal infallibility. A letter of the Duchess of Orleans (Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate) written during the last years of Louis XIV, contains the following reference to the Bull: “_On avait fait au Roi une telle peur de l’enfer, qu’il croyait que tout ceux qui n’avaient pas été instruits par les Jesuites étaient damnés, et qu’il cragnait d’être damné aussi s’il les fréquentait. Quand on voulait perdre quel qu’un, on n’avait qu’à dire: il est Huguenot ou Janséniste; alors l’affaire était faite._ The Maréchal d’Harcourt says that a Jansenist is nothing else than a man that one desires to hang as quickly as possible.”[231]