But, certainly, above all objectionable were the proceedings of the Assumptionists, a religious order which had amassed enormous wealth, and which, by the various local editions of its paper la Croix, had organized a campaign of venomous slander and abuse of the Republic and its leaders.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
This latter, in an artistic sense, is still more objectionable than the first named.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
If she married a man so objectionable to people in power, her father would be obliged to resign his post, her brother could never look for one, and her sister, who had just been engaged to a Count, would, of course, have to give up her engagement.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae