The friction is prodigious!" We then began to talk of the state of religion in France.

He said that among a large set, religion was now _a la mode_.

But he did not suppose that many of the fine folks who _patronised_ it had much belief in it.

The clergy of France were, he said, almost invariably very illiterate.

Guizot, I remembered, calls them in his _History of Civilisation doctes et crudits_, but I abstained from quoting him.
Mohl went on to tell me a story of a newspaper that had been about to be established, called _Le Democrat_.