they had disavowed everything that the 1681 Assembly had decreed regarding ecclesiastical power and pontifical authority. Nevertheless, according to Dégert, the Declaration of the Clergy of France remained "the living symbol of Gallicanism" that was professed by the majority of the French clergy that defended in the faculties of theology, schools, and seminaries, and French suppressed works that seemed to be hostile to the four articles principles. Those ideas were later expressed during the French Revolution in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790. See also Synod of Pistoia Auctorem fidei Notes Citations References Further reading Catholic Church in France Religion in the Ancien Régime Political history of the Ancien Régime 1682 in France Christianity and law in the 17th century 1682 in Christianity