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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX ANTOINE PHILIBERT DUPANLOUP (1802–1878)  , French ecclesiastic, was born at St Felix in Savoy on the 3rd of
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January 1802 . In his earliest years he was confided to the care of his
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brother, a priest in the diocese of
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Chambery . In 1810 he was sent to a pensionnat ecclesiastique at Paris . Thence he went to the seminary of St Nicolas de Chardonnel in 1813, and was transferred to the seminary of St Sulpice at Paris in 1820 . In 1825 he was ordained priest, and was appointed vicar of the Madeleine at Paris . For a time he was tutor to the Orleans princes . He became the founder of the celebrated academy at St Hyacinthe, and received a letter from Gregory XVI. eulogizing his
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work there, and calling him Apostolus juventutis . His imposing height, his noble features, his brilliant eloquence, as well as his renown for zeal and charity, made him a prominent feature in French
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life for many years . Crowds of persons attended his addresses, on whom his energy, command of language, powerful voice and impassioned gestures made a profound impression . When made bishop of Orleans in 1849, he pronounced a fervid
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panegyric on
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Joan of Arc, which attracted attention in England as well as France . Before this he had been sent by Archbishop Affre to Rome, and had been appointed
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Roman prelate and protonotary apostolic . For
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thirty years he remained a notable figure in France, doing his utmost to arouse his countrymen from religious indifference .

In ecclesiastical policy his views were moderate; thus he opposed the

definition of the dogma of papal infallibility both before and during the Vatican council, but was among the first to accept the dogma when decreed . He was a distinguished educationist who fought for the retention of the Latin
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classics in the
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schools and instituted the celebrated catechetical method of St Sulpice . Among his publications are De l'
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education (1850), De la haute education intellectuelle (3 vols., 1866), tEuvres choisies (1861, 4 vols.); Histoire de Jesus (1872), a counterblast to Renan's
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Vie de Jesus . He died on the Irth of
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October 1878 . See Life by F . Lagrange (Eng. tr. by Lady Herbert,
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London, 1885) .

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