00:00The Council of Conscience was a governing body created by Richelieu to appoint bishops and abbots, and to intervene
00:05in other ecclesiastical matters.
00:07In 1643, Anne of Austria gave this Council official status.
00:12Although its composition has varied over the years, and its scope of expertise has evolved, it still retains a leading importance.
00:18During the regency of Philippe d'Orléans, he was caught up in the violent disputes surrounding the Unigenitus bull.
00:24Suppressed from 1718 to 1720, it disappeared definitively under Louis XV in 1732.
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