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Excerpt from Catherine De' Medici

There is generally a cry of paradox when scholars, having discovered a historical error, seek to correct it; but whoever has studied modern history with care cannot doubt that historians are privileged liars who lend their pens to the support of popular supersti tions, precisely as most of the newspapers of to-day merely express the opinions of their readers.

Historical independence has always been much more rare in laymen than in ecclesiastics. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that we obtain the purest light in matters of history, pro vided always that their interests are not involved. The result has been that, since the middle of the eighteenth century, there have appeared divers able and learned controversialists, who, impressed by the necessity of correcting the popular errors accredited by historians, have published some remarkable works. 'monsieur de Launoy, for instance, who has been called the Dislodger of Saints, waged a pitiless war on the saints who had been smuggled into the Church. In like manner, the emulators of the Bene dictines, the too little known members of the Academy of Inscriptions and belles-lettres, began to issue their memoires, remarkable for their patient labor.

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