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Cage, E. Claire
Unnatural Frenchmen
The Politics of Priestly Celibacy and Marriage, 1720-1815
In Enlightenment and revolutionary France, new and pressing arguments emerged in the long debate over clerical celibacy. Appeals for the abolition of celibacy were couched primarily in the language of nature, social utility, and the patrie. The attack only intensified after the legalization of... More
