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Les pornographes sacrés: La confession et les confesseurs Appendice: Pieuses exhortations, par Monseigneur Claret; Mœchialogie, par le R. P. Debreyne; Compendium; et les Diaconales, par Monseigneur Bouvier

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Les pornographes sacrés: La confession et les confesseurs Appendice: Pieuses exhortations, par Monseigneur Claret; Mœchialogie, par le R. P. Debreyne; Compendium; et les Diaconales, par Monseigneur Bouvier

by Léo Taxil

FR·~5 hours·11 chapters

Chapters

11 total
1

LES PORNOGRAPHES SACRÉS

0:01
2

LA CONFESSION ET LES CONFESSEURS

1:10
3

DÉDICACE

5:55
4

LA CONFESSION ET LES CONFESSEURS

17:29
5

EXAMEN DE CONSCIENCE PAR l’Abbé LENFANT Curé de Villiers-le-Gambon.

42:35
6

PIEUSES EXHORTATIONS

30:19
7

MŒCHIALOGIE

1:55:01
8

COMPENDIUM ABRÉGÉ CONTENANT LA SOLUTION DE TOUS LES CAS DE CONSCIENCE SUIVANT LA DOCTRINE DES CONCILES

18:05
9

LES DIACONALES

1:39:14
10

MORALITÉ A TIRER DES IMMORALITÉS DES CONFESSEURS

1:08

Description

A restless journalist finds himself at the center of a Parisian congress of free‑thinkers, where his sharp critique of clerical abuses sparks a sudden, scathing outburst from an unknown heckler. Intrigued rather than offended, he launches a meticulous inquiry into the heckler’s background, uncovering tangled ties between newlyweds, charitable societies, and the very institutions he has been denouncing. The early chapters trace his relentless pursuit of answers through newspapers, courtroom whispers, and the shadowy corridors of the Church.

Through a mix of biting satire and vivid reportage, the narrative exposes the absurdities of confession, the double standards of the clergy, and the political intrigue that surrounds them. Listeners are treated to a vivid portrait of late‑19th‑century France, where religious authority and republican ambition collide in unexpected ways. The book stops short of revealing the ultimate fate of the protagonist’s investigation, leaving the suspense alive for the listener’s imagination.

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Les pornographes sacrés: La confession et les confesseurs Appendice: Pieuses exhortations, par Monseigneur Claret; Mœchialogie, par le R. P. Debreyne; Compendium; et les Diaconales, par Monseigneur Bouvier Appendice: Pieuses exhortations, par Monseigneur Claret; Mœchialogie, par le R. P. Debreyne; Compendium; et les Diaconales, par Monseigneur Bouvier

Language

fr

Duration

~5 hours (319K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Release date

2021-03-27

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Léo Taxil

Léo Taxil

1854–1907

Best remembered for one of the 19th century’s most notorious literary hoaxes, this French journalist built a career on provocation, satire, and anti-clerical scandal. His name is still closely tied to the “Taxil hoax,” a sensational fraud that fooled many readers before he publicly confessed.

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