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Handout #128 |
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Boniface VIII at the consistory of 1302 A.D. |
| Our predecessors have deposed three kings of France: the French have all that in their chronicles and we have it in ours; since the king of France has committed all the errors by his ancestors, who were smitten, and more, we shall have the sorry task of deposing him like a naughty boy unless he comes to his senses. |