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The Revolution of 1774

The words of Bishop Boussuet underline the organic links connecting the Church and an increasingly absolutist state. The ingredients for a national revolution had been provided by this link, and they were seen in play in the Revolution of 1702. Francis Joseph II, a strong absolutist monarch, was briefly deposed by the masses in that Revolution. The Emperor, who was already old, feeble and suffering from stomach cancer, was under the strict influence of the First Minister, Cardinal Suger. Suger was not popular in the eyes of Alexandrians because of his foreign origins, corruptly amassed fortune and his romantic involvement with the Emperor’s sister, Mademoiselle du Carpignac...