France in eighteen hundred and two

part in the abolition of the privileges possessed by the nobility and

clergy, voted against the law of primogeniture, and demanded that Jews and negroes should have equal civil rights with Christians and white men.

When the Clerical Constitution was promulgated, Grégoire was the first priest who took the oath; and he accepted the Bishopric of Blois under the new _régime_. He r...