 | Mignet (M., François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) - France - 1856 - 454 pages
...elements of a religious war. But the assembly decreed that the ecclesiastics should swear fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the civil constitution of the clergy. Refusal to take this oath was to be attended by the substitution... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - Europe - 1864 - 728 pages
...yet, by a decree of November 2-Vth 1790, the Assembly required the clergy to take an oath of fidelity to the nation, the law and the king, and to maintain the constitution. This oath they were to take within a week, on p;iin of deprivation. The King, before... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Battles - 1868 - 640 pages
...sanction, but the clergy were required to take, within a week, on pain of deprivation, an oath of fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the constitution. Out of 138 archbishops and bishops, only four consented to swear, and the oath was also... | |
 | William Chambers - France - 1871 - 358 pages
...at which Talleyrand, bishop of Autun, officiated. The ceremony was concluded by all taking an oath ' to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king;' and with salvoes of artillery the ' national federation' was completed. This imposing display, with its... | |
 | Charles Bertram Black - 1872 - 300 pages
...The president of the National Assembly then went up to the altar and took the civic oath, swearing to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the constitution as decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king ; and every member of the... | |
 | Charles Bertram Black - 1873 - 648 pages
...The president of the National Assembly then went up to the altar and took the civic oath, swearing to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain the constitution as decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king ; and every member of the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1877 - 544 pages
...but by a decree of November 27th, 1790, the Assembly required the clergy to take an oath of fidelity to the nation, the law, and the King, and to maintain the Constitution. This oath they were to take within a week, on pain of deprivation. The King, before assenting... | |
 | William Henley Jervis - France - 1882 - 564 pages
...before the municipality and the people, to be " vigilant in the care of the flock committed to him, to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to maintain to the utmost of his power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the king."... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1884 - 512 pages
...history, the name given to those priests who, on the eve of the first revolution, refused to lake the oath to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king, and to support the constitution which should be framed by the National Assembly and accepted by the king.... | |
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I swear to be faithful to the nation, the law, and the king ; and to maintain with all my powers the constitution decreed by the national assembly, and accepted by the king. 
