Religion Colbert played a subordinate role in the struggle between the king and the papacy over royal rights concerning vacant bishoprics, and he seems to have sympathised with the proposal that suggested seizing part of the wealth of the clergy. In his hatred of idleness, he ventured to suppress no less than seventeen fêtes, and he had a project for reducing the number of persons devoted to clerical and monastic life by increasing the age for taking vows.
Religion Colbert played a subordinate role in the struggle between the king and the papacy over royal rights concerning vacant bishoprics, and he seems to have sympathised with the proposal that suggested seizing part of the wealth of the clergy. In his hatred of idleness, he ventured to suppress no less than seventeen fêtes, and he had a project for reducing the number of persons devoted to clerical and monastic life by increasing the age for taking vows