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Morse got most of this story from a book written by a Scottish academic named John Robison, who in turn took many of his ideas from the abbé de Barruel, a French priest.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2022

He even took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865, becoming an abbé but appropriately stopping short of the vow of chastity.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2011

This smoothness has perhaps a slight tinge of the priestly—for, as Renan first studied for the priesthood, so Dupont-Sommer was once an abbé.

From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955

He wished to rest in his own churchyard, and let the abbé Gaultier and the curé de St. Sulpice squabble as to who should have, the honor of his conversion.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote

The abbé was a man of high calling; one of those priests who are more or less independent in their ideas.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

We cannot conclude this article better than by honorably mentioning two classes of men whom we have seen in all their glory, and whom the Revolution has eclipsed--the chevaliers and the abbés.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

At their feet, on pillows resting, Or reclining on the greensward, May be seen abbés and gallants.

From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Edwin Björkman

The remarkable contrast between the high wages of the Athenian sophists and the low wages of modern abbés, Adam Smith accounts for principally by the many scholarships of modern times.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

Paris is devastated by fellows calling themselves abbés.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

Yes, we can say it among ourselves," Des Hermies returned, "in the nineteenth century the number of foul-minded abbés has been legion.

From Là-bas by Keene Wallace