32 The virtuous Massillon (see note for p. 391, l. 20) consecrated the dissolute abbé Dubois as a bishop at the

32 The virtuous Massillon (see note for p. 391, l. 20) consecrated the dissolute abbé Dubois as a bishop at the command of the Regent Duke d'Orléans, whose political confidant and compagnon in debauchery Dubois was. Dubois ended his checkered ecclesiastical career as a cardinal.