Follow Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand through 11 dated historical records for France.
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
Talleyrand belonged to a clergy whose traditional tithe revenue came under attack during the August reforms. Ending the system required new arrangements to fund religious services and clergy.
Role range: 1789-1792
The August legislation struck at compulsory tithes paid to the Church. Talleyrand and other clerical deputies faced the resulting need to rethink the financial foundations of worship.
Role range: 1789-1792
Bishop Talleyrand proposed placing Church property at the nation's disposal to address public finances. The initiative followed the destruction of tithe revenue and widened the Revolution's transformation of ecclesiastical property.
Role range: 1789-1792
Talleyrand proposed making Church property available to the nation as the treasury's problems mounted. The measure opened a major transfer of institutional wealth toward state administration.
Role range: 1789-1792
The Assembly voted to place ecclesiastical property at the disposal of the nation. This decision altered the economic position of the clergy after the earlier abolition of tithes.
Role range: 1789-1792
Talleyrand participated in the revolutionary transformation of Church-state relations. The Assembly asserted authority to legislate over formerly autonomous ecclesiastical arrangements.
Role range: 1789-1792
Talleyrand operated as a constitutional bishop during the restructuring of the French Church. The Civil Constitution subordinated much ecclesiastical administration to nationally enacted rules.
Role range: 1789-1792
Talleyrand celebrated Mass during the Festival of the Federation before the assembled deputies and National Guards. The ceremony gave a religious form to the Revolution's declaration of national solidarity.
Role range: 1789-1792
Talleyrand officiated at a religious service on the Champ de Mars for the new political nation. The ceremony temporarily joined Catholic ritual to revolutionary citizenship.
Role range: 1789-1792
Talleyrand celebrated Mass during the Federation Festival attended by armed citizen representatives. Religious ritual was incorporated into a civic display of revolutionary solidarity.
Role range: 1789-1792
Talleyrand's alignment with reforms placed him on the side of a reorganized national Church. The oath controversy increasingly made clerical office a question of political as well as religious loyalty.
Role range: 1789-1792
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