French Jesuits pleading with their General Deputy in Rome. Etching.

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French Jesuits pleading with their General Deputy in Rome. Etching. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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France suppressed the Jesuits, on grounds that it was an alien institution threatening the rights of the French Crown and people and the King decreed their abolition in Dec. 1764

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 30.7 x 51.2 cm

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Arrivé des Jesuites expulsés dans l'Etat Eclesiastique, reception de leurs deputés au General à Rome; sa douleur à la vue de leurs disgrace qui annonce la ruine total de l'ordre Lettering continues underneath the print with a poem in French describing the plight of the Jesuits

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Wellcome Collection 42714i

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