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| | Biography Pope Clement XIII The Papal Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Of fifty-one archbishops and bishops then in Paris, forty-four showed themselves favorable to the members of the society and signed a declaration in their favor; and of the remain seven, Monsignor de Grasse, Bishop of Angers, added his signature; two others belonged to the family of Choiseul, the prime minister. |
 | | Speaking of the encyclical of Benedict XIV on Jansenism, the bishop said that, considered in itself, and in spite of the enemies of the faith and the friends of toleration, it was the rampart of the bull Unigenitus, the triumph of the strong, the ignominy of the weak, and the condemnation of the refractory. |
 | | Zalucky, Bishop of Kiev, proceeded to Rome, the at that very moment when the Jesuits were banished from many kingdoms, and their suppression furiously demanded, he the habit in that persecuted order. |
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