Reaction from the French clergy varied.

This step was met with some discontent from French clergy, and thirty priests wrote an open letter to the Pope.

He attended the Assembly of the French clergy in 1485.

The pope summoned French clergy to the Vatican to debate a reform of the kingdom.

He was present at the three French clergy councils in the 1390s called by King Charles the VI.

In 1650 the assembly of the French clergy commissioned him to publish the ecclesiastical historians, after Mons.

Finally, it was agreed that a committee of French clergy and nobles should arbitrate over a permanent settlement.

The king also convoked the French clergy to convene at Paris to accept the bull.

On the other hand, Lustiger's nomination was soon seen as a defeat by liberal French clergy.

The assembly of the French clergy in 1635 granted the bishops of Bethlehem an annual pension.