CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13811, 26 January 1907, Page 9

CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE

NEW USE FOR ARCHBISHOP'S

PALACE,

PARIS, January 24. The Areliiepiscopal Palaco in this city has been converted into offices for the Ministry of Labour.

•The Paris correspondent of the. London Daily Mail, writing on December 12, states: " 10-day hae witnessed a wholesale removal of archbishops and bishops from their episcopal palaces. Most of them had been othcially notified that they must, give- up possession of their official residences by to-morrow, and in consequence the removals uegan to-day. Thonged Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris, will temporarily accept the hospitality o£ M. Donys Coacliin, the well-known Royalist deputy, wlio has offered tho cardinal the uso of rooms in liis private mansion, pending tho furnishing of a .privatehouse. Tho Archbishops of Toure, of Bourges, of Avignon, and of Bcsancon, have all left their palaces and removed into private houses, to-day. The Archbishop of Toulon and tho Bishop of Mans haverefused to leave their palaces. As M, Turma2, Bishop of Nancy, left the episcopal palace this afternoon to take up hie residence in a private house, ho wae accompanied by a largo crowd cheering him. A polico sergeant named Meyer began taking tho rianiea and addresses of some of the crowd, whereupon tho bishop camo up, and excitedly pulled the policeman by his cloak and etruck him. A nolico commissary who Mas immediately drew up a summons against the bishop for " outrages accompanied by violence 911 tho person of a policeman in the execution of his duly."