Law on the sacrilege
The law on the sacrilege is a law punishing of dead any person having made a Sacrilège, passed to France under the Restauration (1815-1830). She was voted by the government Ultra-royaliste directed by the Count de Villèle in January 1825, after the death of Louis XVIII. The extremists, elected in 1824 by a vote narrowly censitaire (100 000 French have the Right to vote then), benefit from the come to power of Charles X, considered to be more favorable to the theses Contre-révolutionnaire S, to represent this bill, already presented, without success, with the Chambre of the pars in April 1824. Pretexting an increase in the flight of sacred vessels, she condemns to dead any profaner, establishing a distinction between the flights of vases without Hostie S and the flights of vases containing of the devoted hosts. In this last case, the bill envisaged the application of the judgment of the Parricide S under the Ancien Mode, sorrow abolished during the Révolution and restored in 1810: mutilation of the fist, then Decapitation. After sharp debates, this punishment is finally replaced by a “amend” of the criminal before his setting with death.
Doctrinary , whose baron de Barante, the Count de Lanjuinais, Royer-Collard and Benjamin Constant are opposed to the law, in the name of the separation of temporal and of the spiritual one. Certain reactionaries themselves, like Lanjuinais, are indignant, this one declaring that the use even of the term of “Déicide” was a sacrilege in oneself, and that the law had by no means to rule on made offenses with God, of which only could be to him a judge. Benjamin Constant affirms that as a Protesting, it cannot even vote the law, since this one, as her distinguishes the flight from a host of a flight of empty vase, rests on a belief (the Transsubstantiation) which he does not share. The rapporteur of the law, the count de Peyronnet, moves back then in front of the right-wing opposition and of left, and affirms that the sacrilege is made up only if it is intentional and public; he establishes even an analogy of the sacrilege to the indecent assaults, affirming that one like the other do not have a direction that if they are made in public.
The law, ever applied except to a minor point, is repealed as of the first months of the Monarchie of July, after the Glorious Three.
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