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Y313: The Ascendancy of France 1610–1715

Religious developments: ‘Most Christian King’, relations with the Jesuits and Catholic Orders

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Name two other strands of Catholic renewal active in seventeenth-century France.

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  1. 1

    What did the title 'Most Christian King' mean for the French monarchy?

    Model answer

    It was the ancient papal style of the kings of France, marking them as the leading defenders of the Catholic faith and giving their authority a sacred character reinforced by anointing with holy oil at Reims and by the royal touch for scrofula.

  2. 2

    Which agreement of 1516 gave French kings control over senior church appointments?

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    The Concordat of Bologna, under which the king nominated bishops and abbots and the Pope then confirmed them, making the wealth and patronage of the French Church an arm of royal power.

  3. 3

    Define Gallicanism.

    Model answer

    Gallicanism was the doctrine that the French Church had ancient liberties of its own and that the Pope's authority in France was limited, particularly in temporal matters and in relation to the rights of the king.

  4. 4

    What did the Declaration of the Clergy of 1682 assert?

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    Its four articles stated that the Pope had no authority over temporal rulers, that a general council stood above the Pope, that the customs of the French Church must be respected, and that papal judgements in matters of faith were not irreformable without the Church's consent.

  5. 5

    Define the regale.

    Model answer

    The king's right to draw the revenues of a vacant bishopric and to make appointments to benefices within it until a new bishop was installed.

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    Why did Louis XIV quarrel with Pope Innocent XI?

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    Louis extended the regale to every diocese in France, and when two bishops appealed to Rome the Pope condemned him, refused bulls of institution to his nominees and was further angered by the Gallican Articles and by the French embassy's claim to immunities in Rome; the quarrel was patched up in the early 1690s when Louis stopped enforcing the Articles and the Pope instituted his bishops.

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