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Duration: 39:30 with discussion afterwards — Talk delivered on Friday, October 13, 2017

France's Reign of Terror & the Witness of the Church Militant

—James Hitchcock—
Touchstone Senior Editor

This talk has also appeared in the pages of Touchstone. Read the paper here.

James Hitchcock is Professor emeritus of History at St. Louis University in St. Louis. He and his late wife Helen have four daughters. His most recent book is the two-volume work, The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life (Princeton University Press, 2004).


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