FELIX

See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE PHILIBERT

See also:

• FELIX ANTOINE PHILIBERT DUPANLOUP (1802–1878)

DUPANLOUP (1802–1878)  , French ecclesiastic, was born at St Felix in Savoy on the 3rd of January 1802 . In his earliest years he was confided to the care of his brother, a priest in the diocese of 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 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 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 panegyric on 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 Roman prelate and protonotary apostolic . For 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 classics in the schools and instituted the celebrated catechetical method of St Sulpice . Among his publications are De l'education (1850), De la haute education intellectuelle (3 vols., 1866), tEuvres choisies (1861, 4 vols.); Histoire de Jesus (1872), a counterblast to Renan's Vie de Jesus . He died on the Irth of October 1878 . See Life by F . Lagrange (Eng. tr. by Lady Herbert, London, 1885) .