The Reactionary Priests of France

Over the summer, tensions in the directory between the republicans and their conservative colleagues heightened over the issue of the old non juring priests. The conservatives wanted to start easing up on this a little, but for the republicans, it was one thing to tolerate those guys and quite another to rehabilitate them completely. At the end of june, the council of 500 voted to repeal the law outlawing nonjuring priests. But still, it was obvious where this was all headed. The reactionary priests who had done so much to turn france into a religious war zone would soon be coming back out into the light, where they would no doubt fully support restoration.