Glimpses of the French Revolution Myths Ideals And Realities
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Seventy-eight witnesses had deposed against him. He was charged with speaking contemp- tuously of Catholic rites, with possessing heretical books, with holding the Copernican theory, and other offences. He had clearly talked, with a free- dom very dangerous in Spain, of the opposition of the priesthood to intellectual and material progress. He fainted while the long indictment was being read. Several judges are said to have voted for death. He was sentenced to spend eight years in a convent, th...ere to peruse certain pious books ; he was de- prived of his property, debarred for life from hold- ing any public post, was never to approach within fifty miles of Madrid or Seville, was never to mount a horse, and was to wear nothing but coarse serge. Allowed, in the winter of 1780, accompanied by a familiar of the Inquisition, to go to Cauterets to H 2 lOO GLIMPSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION take the waters, he escaped to Toulon, but his old friend Aranda was ordered to demand his extra- dition.
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