Fifty compositors were busily setting up a book which the ordinance of the government had decisively forbidden under heavy penalties.
The same kind of connivance was practised to the advantage of other branches of the opposition.

Thirty years before this, the organ of the Jansenist party was peremptorily suppressed.

The police instituted a rigorous search, and seized the very presses on which the Nouvelles Ecclesiastiques was being printed.

But the journal continued to appear, and was circulated, just as regularly as before.[145] The history of the policy of authority towards the Encyclopaedia is only one episode in the great lesson of the reign of Lewis XV.

It was long a common mistake to think of this king's system of government as violent and tyrannical.