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 | | Before the outbreak of the Revolution, it was generally believed in the higher circles of French society, that the clergy, as a privileged class, would make common cause with the nobility; but this supposition was rudely shaken at the very opening of the contest. |
 | | The inmates of the monasteries were allowed to return to civil life by a simple announcement to the nearest secular authority; and according to the character of their monastic vows, the circumstances of their monastery, their age, etc., they received a pension of from seven hundred to twelve hundred francs. |
 | | A law of Sept. 20, 1792, defined marriage as a merely civil contract, dissolvable by common consent, and transferred the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, from the ecclesiastical to the civil authorities. |
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