Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — AN INTERNATIONAL PHASE [ARTICLE]

AN INTERNATIONAL PHASE

French Church Separation Matter Has One That Has Developed Over a School Question. Paris, Dec. 21.—The teachers and students of the famous St. Sulphice seminary here have been expelled. Their superior, as a matter of form, insisted that a policeman lay a hand on his shoulder ns proof that violence was used. Among the students was a number of British subjects and one of the United States, who read an energetic protest alleging that they were there under an agreement with the French government by which, when the property of the old Roman Catholic college was endowed by the Stuarts during the period of religious intolerance in England, and It was taken for a polytechnic institute, it was formally understood that as a compensation the government would maintain twentyfive students sent from England to St. Sulphice. \ The foreign students also announced their intention of calling the attention of their embassies to the action of the local authorities.