Excerpt from French Prophets of Yesterday: A Study of Religious Thought Under the Second EmpireRiots, strongly condemned by all reasonable Catholics, and the loss of much property that could easily have been saved, were the only fruit of this defiant attitude. The legal status of Catholicism thus remaining ill-defined, many Churches left out ofrepairarecondemnedas nnsafe, closedand demolished, there isamovementof protest among artists, antiquaries, audmen of letters, but the people as a whole seem indifferent to the slow crumbling down of their ancient places of'borship. Have the French peasants fallen into such a state of apathy andtorporthat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.