Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (French: [bɔsɥɛ]; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses...
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François-Antoine Bossuet (21 August 1798 Ypres – 28 September 1889 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode) was a painter and draughtsman of the Belgian school. Bossuet...
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, PSS (French: [fʁɑ̃swa də saliɲak də la mɔt fenəlɔ̃]), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651...
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Piazzetta and The Bassin of San Marco in Venice Burgos Cathedral (1851) by François Bossuet Paolo Uccello (1438–1440) The Battle of San Romano Jacques-Louis David...
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The Musée Bossuet is the art and history museum of the town of Meaux, France. Situated in the old episcopal palace, it takes its name from the famous...
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at Paris. Having been nominated prior of a convent, he chanced to meet Bossuet, who recognized in him a learned writer, and an eloquent orator. He entered...
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Academy of Brussels (1839–1842), notably under the famous vedutiste, François Bossuet (1789–1889) who was responsible for teaching him perspective and who...
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Bourgoing died in 1662. His funeral oration was given by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. Bourgoing wrote a number of ascetical treatises. Two of his major works...
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of Brussels' city walls near the Halle Gate in 1830–31, painting by François Bossuet The Halle Gate in the late 19th century, after restoration In 1976...
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Jules Simon (redirect from Jules François Simon)
works of Nicolas Malebranche (2 vols, 1842), of René Descartes (1842), Bossuet (1842) and of Antoine Arnauld (1843), and in 1844–1845 appeared the two...
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Voltaire (redirect from François-Marie Voltaire)
"best of all possible worlds". François-Marie Arouet was born in Paris, the youngest of the five children of François Arouet, a lawyer who was a minor...
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Simon had hoped to overcome the opposition of Bossuet by making changes; these negotiations with Bossuet lasted a considerable time, but finally broke...
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Beaux-Arts between 1832 and 1847, studying under François-Joseph Navez, Paul Lauters and François-Antoine Bossuet (1798–1889). In 1835 he worked in the studio...
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Charles Fourier (redirect from François Marie Charles Fourier)
François Marie Charles Fourier (/ˈfʊrieɪ, -iər/; French: [ʃaʁl fuʁje]; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist...
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discovered that François Guizot had substituted for her. In 1812 Mademoiselle de Meulan married Guizot. She died in 1827. (An only son, François, born in 1819...
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Priory of Le Plessis-Grimoult (section Under Bossuet)
1677, which found that Saint-Germain had to pay Bossuet an annual sum of 230 livres in exchange for Bossuet giving up his right to collect tithes in Maisoncelles...
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previous page. Ritzler, p. 74, and note 5. Bausset, Louis François de (1830). Histoire de J.-B. Bossuet, évéque de Meaux, 1 (in French) (5th ed.). Chez Gauthier...
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a sermon by 17th-century French bishop and theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: The coinage of the phrase in its current form, however, is conventionally...
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full maturity, where it does not take on a social character. Such is what Bossuet expressed in this way: 'Christ does not reign if his Church is not mistress...
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triste et honteux que cet homme si borné ait succédé aux Fénelon et aux Bossuet. ...I am obliged to confess here, with all of France, how sad it is and...
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Auguste Comte (redirect from Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte)
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (French: [oɡyst kɔ̃t] ; 19 January 1798 – 30 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer...
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polytechnique by Napoleon in 1805. Pierre d'Ailly François d'Amboise Jacques d'Amboise Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Jean Buridan Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet...
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of the most famous writers of his times and was an intimate friend of Bossuet. Of his twenty printed works the following are the most important: "Vérité...
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Duchesse de Montpensier, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Bossuet, Jean Chapelain, Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu, La Rochefoucauld, Paul...
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edited the works of François Fénelon. Jacques Le Brun died on 6 April 2020 at the age of 88 after contracting COVID-19. Bossuet (1970) Les Opuscules...
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François de Harlay de Champvallon (François III de Harlay; 14 August 1625 – 6 August 1695) was the fifth Archbishop of Paris. Harlay de Champvallon was...
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century famous for their eloquence. Bossuet, North, statue by Jean-Jacques Feuchère Fénelon, East, statue by François Lanno Fléchier, West, statue by Louis...
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Marquis de Sade (redirect from Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade)
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (/sɑːd, sæd/; French: [dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃z fʁɑ̃swa maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French writer...
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Désiré-Joseph Mercier (redirect from Desiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Mercier)
Désiré Félicien François Joseph Mercier (21 November 1851 – 23 January 1926) was a Belgian cardinal of the Catholic Church and a noted scholar. A Thomist...
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