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 1 1 |           Clergy and Faithful of France.~To the Bishops and Faithful
 2 1 |          Bishops and Faithful of France~Amid the cares of the universal
 3 1 |        testify Our affection for France and her noble people, and
 4 2 |  annihilation of Christianity in France and the animosity with which
 5 3 |       repeatedly come to Us from France, happy to aid the Church
 6 7 |       brilliant example of this? France herself furnishes the same. . . .
 7 7 |                 In proportion as France progressed in the Christian
 8 7 |     faith, which, by the hand of France, traced such glorious pages
 9 7 |     those of the past? We behold France, inexhaustible in her genius
10 14|         succeeded one another in France during the last century,
11 20|         succeeded one another in France in less than a century,
12 23| important acts of legislation in France proceeded from a tendency
13 23|          condition of affairs in France in regard to the Catholic
14 23|          Catholic religion. Poor France! God alone can measure the
15 27|         years has facilitated in France the harmony between the
16 29|                       29. But in France, a nation Catholic in her
17 30|   possible, the evils with which France is afflicted, and to elevate
18 31|      happiness and prosperity of France.~
19 32|        upon all the Catholics of France, the apostolic blessing.~