Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (French: [bɔsɥɛ]; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses...

Bossuet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), French bishop and theologian, uncle of Louis...

Universal History (French: Discours sur l'histoire universelle) is a 1681 work of theology and philosophy by Roman Catholic bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet....

Hautoy. Bossuet's brother was Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1664–1743), abbot of Savigny, and he was nephew by his father to another Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the...

Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the famous preacher who had been instrumental in his conversion, and changed his first name to that of Bossuet. Winsløw...

used in a sermon by 17th-century French bishop and theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: The coinage of the phrase in its current form, however, is conventionally...

governor and was tutored by the great French preacher and orator Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the Bishop of Meaux, seemingly without acceptable results. Philippe...

sister, Vera Oumançoff, lived with Jacques and Raïssa for almost all their married life. At the Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa soon became disenchanted...

secularization of history, the polemic against the Christian position of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was of interest. The humanists of the fifteenth century ignored...

occurred in the seventeenth year of "Nebuchadnezzar's" reign. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet expressed a similar view regarding this. The scholars used specific...

Phillip 1911, p. 806. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1845). Sermons choisis de Bossuet. Sur le devoir des rois. Firmin-Didot. p. 219. bossuet sermons royalty. Romans...

weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak." — Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet "Do not listen to the reasoners; there has been too much reasoning...

(1623–1673). Materialist, feminist. Robert Boyle (1627–1691). Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627 – 1704). Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677). Rationalism. Samuel...

Segneri (1624–1694), Italian Jesuit Junípero Serra, (1713–1784) Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704), Jesuit Tobia Lionelli...

with viols, and hymns, and songs." 17th-century French bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet called this episode the "humble entry … into Jerusalem". Life of...

palace, it takes its name from the famous orator and theologian, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux from 1681 to 1704. Built in the twelfth century...

Descartes Mary of Jesus of Ágreda António Vieira Jean-Jacques Olier Louis Thomassin Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet François Fénelon Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism) Blaise...

Words of Holy Scripture) is a work of political theory composed by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet as part of his duties as tutor for Louis XIV's heir apparent, Louis...

Descartes Mary of Jesus of Ágreda António Vieira Jean-Jacques Olier Louis Thomassin Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet François Fénelon Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism) Blaise...

Descartes Mary of Jesus of Ágreda António Vieira Jean-Jacques Olier Louis Thomassin Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet François Fénelon Cornelius Jansen (Jansenism) Blaise...

his reasoning. Voltaire said that his sermons surpassed those of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (whose retirement in 1669, however, practically coincided with...

(1583–1645) Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) James Harrington (1611–1677) Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) John Locke (1632–1704) Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Montesquieu...

carrying a barometer up to the top of the bell tower at the church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, a height of about 50 metres. The mercury dropped two lines...

Bishop Newton, John Cunninghame, and Edward Bishop Elliott (1837). Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (17th Century), even marks the fall of Paganism to the death of...

Officer of Airbus Antoine Bret (1717–1792), French playwright Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), bishop and theologist Madjid Bougherra (b. 1982),...

the commission to carry out the sculptural work on the tomb of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet in Meaux Cathedral that gave his career a boost and saw him awarded...

(1305–1314): Bertrand de Got Pope John XXII (1316–1334): Jacques d'Euse Pope Benedict XII (1334–1342): Jacques Fournier Pope Clement VI (1342–1352): Pierre Roger...

funeral orations on the Dukes of Burgundy and Luxemburg, and that on Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, his sermons on "Les Calamités publiques" and "The Dying Sinner"...

and underground when the Romans finally invaded. According to Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (c. 1704), this was Divine vengeance that first fell upon the Jews...

& theologian Robert Bellarmine, Italian Cardinal & theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French Bishop & theologian Jules Mazarin, Italian Cardinal & minister...