The  Archbishop  felt  that  some  alternative  would
have  to  be  supplied.  So  he  provided  a  safer  series  of
conferences  with  preachers  of  less  modern  qualities  at
Notre  Dame.  But  the  men  of  Paris  refused  to  attend
them.  They  wanted  Lacordaire.  Ozanam,  distin-
guished for  his  philanthropic  lectures,  and  his  learn-
ing, the  moving  spirit  in  a  great  Catholic  organization
of  young  men,  implored  the  Archbishop  to  give  them
Lacordaire  at  Notre  Dame.  After  much  vacillation  de
Quelen  mustered  up  his  courage  and,  not  without
misgivings,  entrusted  his  Cathedral  pulpit  to  Lacor-
daire (1835).
The  result  was  extraordinary.     Some  six  thousand


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men,  it  is  said,  assembled  in  the  nave  of  Notre  Dame.
