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DOMINIQUE BOUHOURS (1628-1702)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOUHOURS (1628-1702)  , See also:French critic, was See also:born in See also:Paris in 1628 . He entered the Society of Jesus at the See also:age of sixteen, and was appointed to read lectures on literature in the See also:college of Clermont at Paris, and on See also:rhetoric at See also:Tours . He afterwards became private See also:tutor to the two sons of the See also:duke of See also:Longueville . He was sent to See also:Dunkirk to the Romanist refugees from See also:England, and in the midst of his missionary occupations published several books . In 1665 or 1666 he returned to Paris, and published in 1671 See also:Les Entretiens d'Ariste et d'See also:Eugene, a See also:critical See also:work on the French See also:language, printed five times at Paris, twice at See also:Grenoble, and afterwards at See also:Lyons, See also:Brussels, See also:Amsterdam, See also:Leiden, &c . The See also:chief of his other worksare La Maniere de bien penser sur les ouvrages d'esprit (1687), Doutes sur la langue francaise (1674), See also:Vie de See also:Saint Ignace de See also:Loyola (1679), Vie de Saint See also:Francois See also:Xavier (1682), and a See also:translation of the New Testament into French (1697) . His practice of See also:publishing See also:secular books and See also:works of devotion alternately led to the mot, "qu'il servait le monde et le ciel See also:par semestre." See also:Bouhours died at Paris on the 27th of May 1702 . See Georges Doucieux, Un Jesuite homme de lettres an See also:dix-seplieme siecle: Le Pere Bouhours (1886) . For a See also:list of Bouhours' works sec Backer and Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, i. pp . 1886 et seq .

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