Note 056
From Chapter 7 of the Decline & Fall

The account of the last supposed celebration, though in an enlightened period of history, was so very doubtful and obscure, that the alternative seems not doubtœul. When the popish jubilees, the copy of the secular games, were invented by Boniface VIII., the crafty pope pretended that he only revived an ancient institution. M. de Chais Lettres sur les Jubiles.

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