Bernard Groethuysen Quote

We might say that before the French demanded a charter from their sovereign, French Catholics had demanded one of their God. It was understood that God must be just, that he had certain obligations toward men, and that certain reciprocal relations had to be established between creature and Creator.


pp. 87-88 - The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927)


We might say that before the French demanded a charter from their sovereign, French Catholics had demanded one of their God. It was understood that...

We might say that before the French demanded a charter from their sovereign, French Catholics had demanded one of their God. It was understood that...

We might say that before the French demanded a charter from their sovereign, French Catholics had demanded one of their God. It was understood that...

We might say that before the French demanded a charter from their sovereign, French Catholics had demanded one of their God. It was understood that...