In France, Italy and Spain the Catholic church insisted on the use of female midwives, to protect female modesty.

在法国、意大利和西班牙，天主教会坚决主张使用女性助产士，以保护女性的羞耻。

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In Holland, for example, just 9 percent of the population attends church on a regular basis; in France, it's 7 percent; in Latvia, 3 percent.

例如，在荷兰，仅有9%的人经常去教堂；在法国，仅有7%；在拉脱维亚，仅有3%。

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The known provenance of the cloth now stored in Turin dates to 1357, when the widow of the French knight Geoffroi de Charny had it displayed in a church at Lirey, France (diocese of Troyes).

贮藏在都灵的裹尸布出处可以回溯到1357年，法国武士Geoffroi de Charny的遗孀把它放在法国里昂（Troyes主教教区）的教堂上。

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Now,every time there's a big time political disaster, from the point of view of the Catholic Church in France, it's followed by a period of religious revival.

于是,每当天主教会看到法国政治格局,有重大的变盘,紧接着就会兴起宗教复兴

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He makes clear that he is going to restore the church to its, what he considered rightful place of privilege in France; and, possibly,he could benefit from the wave of religious revival that occurs in France in the 1870s.

他很聪明,想要把教会恢复到,他认为是法国特权应有的地位,以及,说不定,他能从十九世纪七十年代,兴起的宗教复兴运动中捞到好处

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