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See also Barthelemy, Erreurs et mensonges, 5e, l3e, 14e Serie, articles on Freron, Nonnotte, Trublet, and Patrouillet. Confessions de Freron. The superiority of the Philosophers over the churchmen in argument is too evident to be denied. The strength of a church does not lie in her doctors and her orators, still less in her wits and debaters, though they all have their uses.
There was no Bossuet, no Fenelon in the Church of France of the eighteenth century. Her defense was intrusted to far weaker men. First we have the archbishops, Lefranc de Pompignan of Vienne and Elie de Beaumont of Paris. Then come the Jesuit Nonnotte and the managers of the Memoires de Trevoux, the Benedictine Chaudon, the Abbe Trublet, the journalist Freron, and many others, lay and clerical.
Chaudon and Nonnotte prepared a series of articles, arranged in the form of a dictionary, in which the Catholic doctrine is set forth, sometimes clearly and forcibly. Dictionnaire antiphilosophique, republished and enlarged by Grosse under the title Dictionnaire d'antiphilosophisme, Palissot, Les philosophes.
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