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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 27, 3 April 1891, Page 5

A glaring instance of the philistinism of irreligioa is reported from France. Home gentlemen connected witn the Kduca ion Department subscribed enough money to have Millet's picture, the Angelas, engraved, intending to Baud copies of the engraviog to tbe public schoole. The parcels, it is said, had actually been made up tor distribution, when some godless jack 9in office iutervened. IV' word " Angelue," they declare i, "reminded them of tbe worst days of superstition " Fnev could not let >t pass ; and so the schools lode tbe pictures. Only iv Scotland, we believe, or among Irish Presbyterians, could bigotry like this be matched,