According to The Irish Times:
Some 15 de La Rochefoucaulds were guillotined in the revolution. The present-day scion has a special fondness for Pierre-Louis de La Rochefoucauld, Bishop of Saintes… [who] would have been canonised, the duke believes, had the church not been intimidated by the government. “In France, the legal government considers that the revolution was a marvellous thing,” he says bitterly.
“If you go into a church, you see people like me. Chivalry was the basis of the old nobility, and the Catholic faith is the basis of chivalry.”
The duke sees the present government as modern-day Jacobins.
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Bl. Pierre-Louis de la Rochefoucauld-Bayers, Bishop of Saintes
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Also of interest:
June 17, 1793: Pius VI condemns the revolutionary concepts of liberty and equality
Marie Antoinette comforts the Dauphin
April 16 – Martyred in the name of Equality
Love of Faith and country trump parental love
The death of the de la Metairie sisters ends the Terror of Nantes
