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John Woodbridge, « Censure royale et censure épiscopale : le conflit de 1702 », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1976.2830
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John Woodbridge : Royal and episcopal censorship. The conflict of 1702. On 25th November 1702, the Chancellor Pontchartrain and the Archbishop of Paris, Noailles, settled a dispute, arising from Bossuet's attempts to censor R. Simon's work, over the censorship of books on religion and morality ; henceforth they could not be published without a royal privelege, and thus Noailles' claim that bishops should control such books was defeated. As a result the Philosophes' works faced censorship by the State, not the Church. The background to this conflict is reviewed, and its implications analysed.