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Updated: May 15, 2025
Not only does it turn their zeal to account, but it authorizes their association. Numerous societies of men or of women again spring up with the assent of the public authorities the "Ignorantins," the "Filles de la Charite," the "Seurs Hospitalieres," the "Saeurs de Saint-Thomas," the "Saeurs de Saint-Charles," the "Saeurs Vatelottes."
He is constantly importuned for help, which, out of his slender income, he can ill afford to bestow, and he is surrounded by spies, detractors, and adversaries on every side. That clericalism dominates here, we need not be told. The booksellers' shops are filled with tracts about the miracles of Lourdes, rosaries, and rubrics; the streets swarm with nuns, Jesuits, and Freres Ignorantins.
It also exempts the "Ignorantins," or brethren of the Christian schools, who are the instructors of the common people.
Claude, like the other towns I have passed through in the heart of the Jura, is eminently Republican, and a very intelligent workman told me that Catholic parents were compelled to send their children to the lay Communal Schools, instead of to the Freres Ignorantins, because with the latter they learn nothing. Many of these Freres Ignorantins I saw here, and graceless figures they are.
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