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    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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    are reinstalled in the Musée Carnavalet. No. 17: bishop and theologian Bossuet No. 20: Prince Obolensky Arnaud Henry Salas-Perez No. 21: Cardinal Richelieu...
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    fountain presents the statues of four bishops, one on each of its sides: Bossuet, North, statue by Jean-Jacques Feuchère Fénelon, East, statue by François...
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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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    François-Antoine Bossuet (21 August 1798 Ypres – 28 September 1889 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode) was a painter and draughtsman of the Belgian school. Bossuet is known...
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  • such a journey on his own. Angélina replies that he is not alone. Félix Bossuet as Sébastien Tchéky Karyo as César Margaux Châtelier as Angélina Dimitri...
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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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    During this period, Fénelon assisted Bossuet during his lectures on the Bible at Versailles. It was probably at Bossuet's urging that he now composed his Réfutation...
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    de Longueville, the Duchesse de Montpensier, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Bossuet, Jean Chapelain, Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu, La...
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    "re-educated" and sometimes executed. He ensured that no massacres took place in the region, and pursued a more lenient approach than that advocated by...
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    Benigne Bossuet, and it is thought that the transaction of the change was the cause of La Bruyère's introduction to the great orator, Bossuet, who, from...
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    Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (category Works by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet)
    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, le...
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    Visitors to his shrine included Anne of Austria, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, John of Matha, King Louis XIII of France, and Vincent de Paul. Fiacre...
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    Mount. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress. ISBN 9780800660314. Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne (1900). The Sermon on the Mount . Longmans, Green, and...
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  • Nico Rogner as Niko Oona von Maydell as Jana Caroline Gay as Yaël Félix Bossuet [fr] as Fissou Elliot Daurat as Ewen Hadi Rassi as Zap Farid Bouzenad as...
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    against the attacks of Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole and Jacques-Benigne Bossuet but was equally ready to enter into dispute with his fellow Protestants...
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  • François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois Geoffrey Bateman as Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Ken Bones as Cardinal Leto Thierry Harcourt as André Le Nôtre Anatole Taubman...
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  • demands of the proletariat. By 1888, Marxists employed the term socialism in place of communism, which had come to be considered an old-fashioned synonym for...
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    publication. It was stylish and well received, with praise from Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. The context was that Petavius and Simon Episcopius, to take two examples...
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    H.331 and Jean-Baptiste Lully his Dies irae. The funeral prayer was by Bossuet.[citation needed] Maria Theresa married her double first cousin Louis XIV...
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    dissent, but want their subjects to remain passive and demobilized. Scholars place fascism on the far right of the political spectrum. Such scholarship focuses...
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    pulpit of the church of St. Louis. He was friends with Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, although they had very different styles and approaches to preaching. He...
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    death took place at Clermont on September 18, 1742. Massillon enjoyed in the 18th century a reputation equal to that of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet and of Louis...
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    Vallery, the traditional resting place of the Princes of Condé. Bourdaloue attended him at his death-bed, and Bossuet pronounced his elegy. Although his...
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    anti-poisons. The royal family arrived at Saint-Cloud within hours. Bishop Bossuet was called and later administered Extreme Unction. At 2 o'clock in the...
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    government where it has place. It is surely the best and most sacred of any. I only contend that it has very seldom had place in any degree and never...
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  • Champvallon, and Le Tellier, Archbishops respectively of Paris and of Reims. Bossuet, on 9 November 1681, preached in the church on the Grands Augustins at...
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    atque in eo bello jus esse omnibus in omnia. I demonstrate, in the first place, that the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly...
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  • will come to him and make our dwelling with him." Lack of love may give place to hatred, wrath, or indifference. The moral virtues are acquired by practice...
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    bank of the River Thames, on 10 June 1215. Runnymede was a traditional place for assemblies, but it was also located on neutral ground between the royal...
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