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most of the Catholic countries of Europe, and the abolition of the order by the Pope himself. This hostility was very strong in the court of Louis XIV, and extended to New France.
De la Motte espoused the cause of the Franciscans, and, although a zealous Catholic, he cordially and openly hated the Jesuits, and probably did so before his controversy with them at Mackinaw.
In his resistance of the ordinance he uses, and with great effect, just the line of argument which is familiar to our ears in opposition to modern prohibitory laws.
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