History of Civilization

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is well known that prior to 1789, the Doctrinaires were an educational body. M. Boyer-collard had been educated in a college Of Doctrinaires, and in the debates of the Chamber his logical and lofty understanding always impelling him to sum up the question in a dogmatical form, the word doctrine was Often upon his lips, so that one day a wag Of the royalist majority cried out, Voila. Bien les doctrinaires.' The phrase took, and remained as a definition, if not clear, at all events absolute, Of the political fraction directed by royer-collard.