tant . . . que, either . . . or

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4. billets de confession, the question whether the Church had the right to withhold certificates of confession from those who refused to acquiesce in the papal bull Unigenitus, directed against the Jansenist heresy, gave rise to a fierce dispute, interrupted by the successive exile of either party, between the archbishop of Paris {de Beaumoni) and the Parlement (cf. page 25, note 2).

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