Conversely, the picture of the priest, his habit and character, as the fatal and necessary opponent of the revolutionary theory, became so fixed in the mind of the Republican that two generations did nothing to eliminate it, and that even in our time the older men, in spite of pure theory, cannot rid themselves of an imagined connection between the Catholic Church and an international conspiracy against democracy. Nor does this non-rational but very real feeling lack support from the utterances of those who, in opposing the political theory of the French Revolution, consistently quote the Catholic Church as its necessary and holy antagonist. The attempt to “de-christianise” France failed, as I have said, completely. Public worship was restored, and the Concordat of Napoleon was believed to have settled the relations between Church and State in a permanent fashion. We have lived to see it dissolved; but this generation will not see, nor perhaps the generation succeeding it, the issue of the struggle between two bodies of thought which are divided by no process of reason, but profoundly divorced by the action of vivid and tragic historical memories. FOOTNOTES: [8] This opinion has entered into so many Protestant and non-Catholic histories of the Revolution that it is worth criticising once again in this little book. The King was perfectly free to receive communion privately from the hands of orthodox priests, did so receive it, and had received communion well within the canonical times. There was little ecclesiastical reason for the attempted leaving of Paris for St. Cloud on Monday the 18th April, 1791, save the _custom_ (not the religious duty) of communicating in public on Easter Sunday itself; it was a political move. INDEX Alexander the Great, 144 Argonne, the, 156 Arras, 132, 137 Artois, Comte d’, 105 Avignon, 111 Bacharach, 173 Bailly, 71, 95 Barentin, 89 Barrère, 80, 125, 130, 131 Bastille, the, 95, 105, 109, 115 Beauregard, 200 Belgium, 123, 167, 169, 173 Bergues, 191 Bordeaux, 135 Bouillé, 107, 152 Brissot, 110, 130 Brunswick, Duke of, 115, 118, 178 Brussels, 168 Cæsar, 144 Calonne, 46 Cambon, 125 Carignan, 200 Carlyle, Thomas, 68 Carnot, 72-74, 80, 81, 136, 139, 171, 184, 186, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201 Cassel, 192 Chalôns, 107, 158 Champ-de-Mars, Massacre of, 109 Champfleury, 77 Charleroi, 210, 211 Charles I of England, 222 Chollet, 128 Clerfayt, 206, 207, 209 Coblentz, 115 Coburg, 170, 173, 176, 177, 179, 186, 188, 196, 210 Committee of Public Safety, 78, 79, 80, 81, 119, 125, 126, 128, 129, 131, 134, 136, 137, 140, 183, 195, 196, 203 Condé, 106 Condé, fortress of, 135, 173, 177, 178, 180, 182, 183, 186, 195 Condorcet, 71 _Contrat Social_, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 125, 133 Coudequerque, 192 Couthon, 131 Custine, 177, 178, 179, 180