CATHOLICISM AND FRENCH REGICIDE

Sir,—In his review in the last issue (HI 31.4, July/August 2023) Gerard O’Sullivan says that John T. McGreevy’s Catholicism: a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis ‘opens with the guillotining of the Catholic [my emphasis] king of France, Louis XVI, in 1793’. This is yet again another gross distortion of what too ... Read more

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