Tempier\u2019s letter and Jeancard\u2019s persuasion eventually did the trick and Eugene succumbed to the pressure and wrote the required letter to the King.<\/p>\n
\nMy dear Tempier.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
This letter will be brought you by Jeancard who will tell you orally everything we discussed together. Even so I\u2019m giving him a letter for you, though it isn\u2019t my intention to scold you for the bad humour you were unable to hide in the last two items of our correspondence. I understand that you could be upset at finding me resistant to certain plans you have set your heart on; however, the motives I adduced were sufficiently well-founded in reason and especially in religion to turn aside any annoyance at my resistance. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
I see in the letter I got today that your anger hasn\u2019t cooled down yet… However, you must have received my letter, sent on the 27th from Gap, in which I wrote out for you what I was proposing to write to the King. It has been dispatched and in all probability will be in his hands the day after tomorrow; I hope he will find it satisfactory and the first stage of our business will soon reach a satisfactory conclusion.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Eugene underlines the important point:<\/p>\n
\nJeancard will tell you in what sense I agree to the matter of being coadjutor and do not want a diocese. It is that if I have misfortune to lose my uncle, no-one would force me to accept the succession.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Letter to Henri Tempier, 31 August 1835, EO VIII n 539<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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