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Doc. 206.] 99
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1737.
the interior and the exterior, except what has reference to war;
the Comte de Florintin, secretary of state, that which con
cerns religion, which is very little ; Mons. d’Anguilliers, se
cretary of state, all that concerns war in the country. The
Duke of Charot is the presiding officer of the council. M. Orry,
who is councillor of state and in the royal council, is comp
troller of finance, and has in his charge the affairs of commerce
and what concerns [the finances of] the state. Lamoignon
de Cuisson is also councillor of state.
In France there are 14,777 convents and from 300,000 to
400,000 members of religious orders, who possess 9000 palaces or
mansions; 1356 abbots, 567 abbesses, 13,000 prioresses (
prieuses),
15,000 chaplains, 140,000 pastors and curates, 18 archbishops,
and 112 bishops. 776 abbots and 280 abbesses are appointed by
the king. There are also 16 heads of orders. The following
are the principal : the Jacobins, Augustines, Cordeliers, Car
melites, Carthusians (Chartreux), Bernardines, Benedictines,
Jesuits, Minimi,* Celestines.
The archbishops have the following provinces allotted to
them: 1. Paris, Monseigneur de Luc [Louis?], 2. Lyon, 3. Rouen,
Monsign. Tavannes, 4. Sens, 5. Rheims, Monsign. de Rohan,
6. Tours, 7. Bourges, 8. Alby, 9. Bordeaux, 10. Auch, Car
dinal Polignac, 11. Narbonne, 12. Toulouse, 13. Arles, 14. Aix,
15. Vienne, 16. Embrun, 17. Besançon, 18. Cambray.
Members of the Royal House of France : King Louis XV,
born in 1710 ; Queen Marie, in 1703 ; the Dauphin, in 1729 ; the
six Mesdames de France. The royal family is mostly from the
Bourbon family in conjunction with the Duke of Orléans, the
Duchess of Orléans, the widow of the late duke, who is now
living, being a Bourbon ; further, from the Bourbons and the
Bourbon-Contis. Two sons of the late Duke of Orléans are
living, a daughter is an abbess ; of the Bourbon branch several
are living, one son [a Bourbon] and his brother, who is called
the Duc de Chartres, besides several daughters ; there are
also some from the branch Bourbon-Conti, and from the branch
Bourbon-Condé. There are altogether twelve male and fourteen
female descendants of the Bourbons and the Duke of Orléans.
* A reformed order of the Franciscans.
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