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COMTE AE DENIS See also: born of humble parentage at Curieres, in the department of See also: Aveyron, on the 9th of May 1765
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He owes his reputation mainly to the lectures on dogmatic See also: theology, known as the " conferences " of See also: Saint Sulpice, delivered in the See also: church of Saint Sulpice,
See also: Paris, from 1803 to
1809, to which admiring crowds were attracted by his lucid exposition and by his graceful oratory
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The freedom of his language in 1809, when See also: Napoleon had arrested the See also: pope and declared the annexation of See also: Rome to See also: France, led to a prohibition of his lectures; and the dispersion of the See also: congregation of Saint Sulpice in 1811 was followed by his temporary retirement from the capital
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He returned with the Bourbons, and resumed his lectures in 1814; but the events of the See also: Hundred Days again compelled him to withdraw into private See also: life, from which he did not emerge until See also: February 1816
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As See also: court preacher and almoner to See also: Louis XVIII., he now entered upon the
See also: period of his greatest public activity and influence
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In connexion with the controversy raised by the See also: signing of the reactionary concordat of 1817, he published in 1818 a See also: treatise entitled Vrais Principes de l'eglise Gallicane sur la puissance ecclesiastique, which though unfavourably criticized by See also: Lamennais, was received with favour by the See also: civil and ecclesiastical authorities
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The consecration of Frayssinous as See also: bishop of Hermopolis " in partibus," his election to the French See also: Academy, and his See also: appointment to the See also: grand-mastership of the university, followed in rapid succession
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In 1824, on the accession of See also: Charles X., he became
See also: minister of public instruction and of ecclesiastical affairs under the administration of Villele; and about the same See also: time he was created a peer of France with the title of count
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His See also: term of office was chiefly marked by the recall of the See also: Jesuits
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In 1825 he published his lectures under the title Defense ;du christianisme
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The See also: work passed through 15 See also: editions within 18 years, and was translated into several See also: European See also: languages
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In 1828 he, along with his colleagues in the Villele See also: ministry, was compelled to resign office, and the subsequent revolution of See also: July 183o led to his retirement to Rome
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Shortly afterwards he became tutor to the duke ofSee also: Bordeaux (Comte de Chambord) at See also: Prague, where he continued to live until 1838
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He died at St Geniez on the 12th of See also: December 1841
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See Bertrand, Bib1
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Sulpicienne (t. ii
.
135 sq.; iii
.
253) for bibliography, and G
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A
.
Henrion (Paris, 2 vols., 1844) for biography
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FR$CHETTE, LOUIS HONOR$ (1839-1908), French-See also: Canadian poet, was born at See also: Levis, See also: Quebec, on the 16th of See also: November 1839, the son of a contractor
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He was educated in his native province, and called to the Canadian See also: bar in 1864
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He started the Journal de Levis, and his revolutionary doctrines compelled him to leave See also: Canada for the See also: United States
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After some years spent in journalism at See also: Chicago, he was in 1874 elected as the Liberal See also: candidate to represent Levis in the Canadian parliament
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At the elections of 1878 and 1882 he was defeated, and there-after confined himself to literature . He edited La-Patric and other French papers in the Dominion; and in 1889 was appointed clerk of the Quebec legislative council . He was long a warm advocate of theSee also: political union of Canada and the United States, but in later life became less ardent, and in 1897 accepted the honour of C.M.G. from See also: Queen See also: Victoria
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He was president of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Society of Arts, and received numerous honorary degrees
.
His See also: works include: See also: Mes Loisirs (1863); La Voix d'un exile (1867), a satire against the Canadian See also: government; See also: Pole-mete (1877); See also: Les Fleurs boreales, and Les Oiseaux de neige (188o), crowned by the French academy; La Legende d'un peuple (1887); two See also: historical dramas, See also: Papineau (188o) and Felix Poutre (188o); La Noel au Canada (1900), and several See also: prose works and See also: translations
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An exponent of See also: local French sentiment, he won the title of the " Canadian Laureate." He died on the 1st of See also: June 1908
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