Jules Michelet: Difference between revisions

'''Description of Artwork:''' In many of Jules Michelet's journals and books, he attacked the ethics of Christian doctrines and beliefs.  In his book, ''Du Pretre, de la Femme, de la Famille'' (The Priesthood, Women, and the Family), which was published in 1845, Michelet attacked the power of priesthood.  In particular, Michelet asserts that priests with no personal experience of marriage presumed to tell women in particular how to act towards their husbands and family.  Later in his life Michelet took particular aim at the Jesuit faith arguing that Jesuits were the enemies of liberty and enlightenment. <P>

'''Results of Incident:''' Michelet continued to write and express his views.  In 1858 he wrote ''L'Amour'' (Love), in which he contrasted the love and morality which existed in ordinary families with their absence in the institutional Church.  Despite the work being censored and placed on the "Index", it became extremely popular among the reading public.  Before his death in 1874 Michelet wrote additional works all of which were placed on the "Index" until it was abolished in 1966.  <P>