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Guy Besse, « Une lettre du chanoine Bergier (1774) », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1996.2110
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Guy Besse : A letter from Canon Bergier to abbé Pralet (1774). This letter, in the Nantes municipal library, is to a friend from Franche-Comté, abbé Pralet, who was in Madrid, governed by the enlightened Charles III. While showing Bergier' s attachment to the Bishop of Arras, de Conzie, who was influential at court, it also confirms what his published correspondence already tells us ; the former priest at Flangebouche, the confessor of the first princesses in the realm as well as a philosopher and theologien with comfortable pensions from church and state, nevertheless affirms his independence as a man and a scholar and hopes one day to break the 'chains' keeping him at Versailles. He informs his friend about the imminent re-establishment of the former Parlement and, although refusing to give an opinion as to what is likely to happen, he is nevertheless critical of the probable reticence of the Philosophes, who he thinks will weigh up the risks before reacting.