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SCG-C.762.057
17-24 Jul 1762:22 (1462)
Paris, April 5. [Report of removal of the Jesuit teachers
from the colleges]
In consequence of it, all the Chinese whom the society
educated through ostentation; all the Armericans[!] whom
they were paid for instructing out of a fund appropriated
for that purpose by Lewis XIV, in short, all the young
noblemen and gentlemen of fortune whom they had gained by
seduction, walked out of the public schools amidst the
acclamations of a multitude of people, assembled on this
occasion. There will be no more Armenian ballets, or Chinese
dances, on the theatre of the college of Lewis the Great.
That college, over the gates of which the Jesuits
substituted, in the name of Jesus, the name of Lewis XIV,
because they acknowledge no God but the latter, . . . will
have no longer a theatre, no longer dancers, nor will the
best performers at the Comidie Franquise, or the opera, any
longer give lessons there every summer.
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