Storia do Mogor 369.3

369.3

The attack made on Norbert's morals by T. H. Chevrier, alias 'Le Colporteur' (born at Nancy, 1720; died 1762), in his 'La Vie du Fameux Père Norbert, ex-Capuchin . . .' (London, 1762), is mere silly backbiting, and is rendered still less worth notice when contrasted with the praise he had already lavished on his victim in a previous work ('Mémoires des Hommes Illustres de Lorraine,' ii. 83). The charge made by the Jesuits that Norbert falsified a document at Pondicherry I hold to be quite groundless. On the other hand, some of his charges against them are trivial, and a few are not proven; but the remainder of them are abundantly proved, and could hardly be seriously disputed. I am speaking solely of the facts as facts, and not of the interpretations put upon them by controversialists.