He sent out the troops to burn down Jansenist abbeys,

他派部队去烧毁詹森教徒的两座修道院
the big one was called Port-Royal outside of Paris.

大的那座位于巴黎郊外叫波尔罗亚尔
He thought that this was a threat to the Galician Church,

他认为詹森教徒是对加利西亚教会的威胁
which was sort of the alliance of the Catholic Church

而后者在一定程度上是天主教
with the monarchy in France.

和法国王室的同盟者
Rather like Carthage, they were supposed to plow salt

和迦太基的遭遇类似据说他们
into the land and all this business.

想要斩草除根
So, they wage war on these Jansenist people,

于是他们向詹森教徒开战了
who were rather like Calvinists in many ways.

詹森教徒在很多方面很像加尔文教徒
But the only point of that is that there are lawyers

不过这里的关键在于有律师开始
who begin to defend the Jansenists and begin to see the actions

为詹森教徒辩护并把国王的行动视为
of the king vis-à-vis this persecuted religious minority as despotic.

针对这些受迫害的宗教少数派的暴君行径