Gibson Square, Feb. 4. 1851.
_Prayer of Bishop of Nantes._--In Allison's _History of the French
Revolution_, ed. 1849, at page 432. vol. i., there occurs the following
passage:
"The Bishop of Nancy commenced, as customary, with the prayer:
'Receive, O God, the homage of the Clergy, the respects of the
Noblesse, and the humble supplications of the Tiers Etat.'"
This formula was, the historian tells us, received with a storm of
disapprobation by the third order. Will any of your contributors be so
obliging as to inform me where the form of prayer spoken of as _customary_
is to be found?