Besson, 2 vols.] [Footnote 5258: December, 1890.] [Footnote 5259: Cf., in the above-mentioned biographies, the public and political discourses of the leading prelates, especially those of M.
Mathieu (of Besancon), M.Dupanloup (of Orleans), Mgr.

de Bonnechose (of Rouen), and particularly Mgr.

Pie (of Poitiers).] [Footnote 5260: A fact told me by a lady, an eye-witness.

In the seventeenth century it is probable that Fenelon or Bossuet would have regarded such a response as extravagant and even sacrilegious.] [Footnote 5261: Imagine the impression this might have had on ambitious men dreaming of establishing their own faithful parties.

(SR.)] [Footnote 5262: Abbe Elie Meric, in the "Correspondant" of January 10, 1890, p.