In March, 1714, the Sorbonne, after some stirring discussions, accepted the Bull by a bare majority. In 1714, at the special instance of the pope, the Congregation condemned the _Lettre Pastorale et Mandement_ of Cardinal Noailles, Archbishop of Paris, as heretical and tending to schism. Louis XIV had previously, in indignation at the “Jansenist views” of the Cardinal, indicated by his opposition to the Bull, forbidden him approach to the court. In 1714, the King suggested to the pope the desirability of calling a national council of the French Church, for the general object of bringing to a close the remnants of the Jansenist dissensions, and with the special purpose of bringing discipline to bear on Cardinal Noailles. The pope gave favourable consideration to the plan, but the death of the King, in September, 1715, prevented its being carried out. The Duke of Orleans, who became Regent, was less sharply opposed to the Jansenist group. He prohibited, in 1716, the printing of certain censures that had been ordered by the Assembly of the Clergy for treatises by du Fouillon on the Bull _Unigenitus_, and on the Evidence of the True Faith. The Sorbonne, in modification of its previous conclusions, made in December, 1715, a renewed protest against the Bull, which protest was supported by the other theological faculties of the kingdom. Thirty bishops declared to the Regent that they had given their acceptance of the Bull only on condition that it should be published with explanations and specifications. Clement XI demanded the immediate submission, under penalty of deposition, of Noailles and the protesting bishops. He declared that the bishops named by the Regent would be confirmed only after they had given in their assent to the publication and execution of the Bull; and he suspended, in November, 1716, by a brief, the privileges that had been conveyed by the Holy See to the Sorbonne. These briefs were, however, refused confirmation and publication by the Regent and the Parliament. During 1717, the Inquisition condemned, at the instance of the pope, a series of statements and letters from the French ecclesiastics, and of acts of the Parliament, and also certain decrees of the Sorbonne. In October, 1717, the Regent commanded that there should thereafter be absolute silence concerning these ecclesiastical issues, and the Parliament condemned and prohibited certain writings, including an appeal from Noailles and the decree of the Inquisition. Under Innocent XIII, who, in 1721, succeeded Clement XI, the contest and the controversies continued, and the lists of the Index were swelled with the titles of the controversial monographs, letters, etc.