France and the Destruction of the Jesuits, 1759–65

Known for her translations of Annales School historians, and her analytical bibliography of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Patricia M. Ranum has edited several seventeenth-century sources, including The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin (Brill, 2018) and Étienne Pasquier, The Jesuits’ Catechism or Their Doctrine Examined (1602) (Brill, 2021).Jotham Parsons, Ph.D. (1997, Johns Hopkins University) is Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University. He has published extensively on early modern European history, including The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France (CUA Press, 2005). He is the co-editor of Étienne Pasquier, The Jesuits’ Catechism or Their Doctrine Examined (1602) (Brill, 2021).Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (2006, Fordham University) has published widely on the history of the Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (Ashgate, 2008) and The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2010). He is the editor of the Journal of Jesuit Studies and the Jesuit Studies book series at Brill. He is the co-editor of Étienne Pasquier, The Jesuits’ Catechism or Their Doctrine Examined (1602) (Brill, 2021).

• Contents1 Historical IntroductionJotham Parsons2 Reflections on the Attempted Assassination of the King of Portugal, September 3, 1758Pierre-Jean Grosley and Louis-Adrien le Paige3 Pastoral Instruction of the Archbishop of Paris on the Attacks against the Authority of the Church by the Judgments of the Secular Tribunals in the Affair of the JesuitsChristophe de Beaumont4 On the Destruction of the Jesuits in France by a Disinterested AuthorJean le Rond d’AlembertIndex