{"id":3465,"date":"2017-08-08T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2017-08-08T01:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T23:46:27","slug":"the-july-revolution-glorious-or-inglorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"THE JULY REVOLUTION: \u201cGLORIOUS\u201d OR \u201cINGLORIOUS\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What French history has referred to as \u201cThe Three Glorious Days\u201d (27-29 July 1830) were anything but \u201cglorious\u201d for Eugene. For the preceding few years government anti-religious sentiments and actions had been increasing. (cf the entry from https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3415<\/a> onwards)<\/p>\n

Now these erupted and revolt broke out in Paris, leading to the abdication of King Charles X and the takeover of power by Louis Philippe. He named himself not \u201cKing of France\u201d, but \u201cKing of the French.\u201d The \u201cCitizen King,\u201d as opposed to the line of Bourbon monarchs, was going to change the relationship between the State and the Church \u2013 and we shall see how Eugene was to be affected at great personal cost to himself in the years that followed.<\/p>\n

Eugene was in Switzerland, while Henri Tempier was in Marseilles. Rumors of the violence that had been happening in Paris had filtered through to him, and he was anxious:<\/p>\n

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You can understand, my dear friend, how impatiently I await news from you. You did not write on the 30th, the day, by my calculations, when you ought to have been informed of the events at Paris.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
You were at fault, for you can imagine the extent of my anxiety after the rumors, increasingly exaggerated one after the other, during the three days that the post failed to arrive.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, 4 August 1830, EO VII n. 352<\/em><\/p>\n

Eugene\u2019s anxiety was focused on whether the violence had spread to the south of France and the danger to his Oblates and to the diocese of Marseilles. Was this going to be a repetition of 1789?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What French history has referred to as \u201cThe Three Glorious Days\u201d (27-29 July 1830) were anything but \u201cglorious\u201d for Eugene. For the preceding few years government anti-religious sentiments and actions had been increasing. (cf the entry from https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3415 onwards) Now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}