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See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:HENRI See also:LACORDAIRE (1802-1861)
, See also:French ecclesiastic and orator, was See also:born at Recey-sur-Ource, Cate d'Or, on the 12th of See also:
These reverses Lacordaire accepted with quiet dignity; but they brought his relationship with Lamennais to a See also:close
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He now began the course of See also:Christian conferences at the College Stanislas, which attracted the See also:art and See also:intellect of Paris; thence he went to Notre See also:Dame, and for two years his sermons were the delight of the See also:capital
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His presence was dignified, his See also:voice capable of indefinite modulation, and his gestures animated and attractive
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He still preached the See also:gospel of the See also:people's See also:sovereignty in See also:civil See also:life and the See also:pope's supremacy in See also:religion, but brought to his propagandism the full resources of a mind See also:familiar with See also:philosophy, See also:history and literature, and indeed led the reaction against Voltairean See also:scepticism
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He was asked to edit the Univers, and to take a See also:chair in the university of See also:Louvain, but he declined both appointments, and in 1838 set out for Rome, revolving a great See also:scheme for christianizing See also:France by restoring the old See also:order of St See also:Dominic
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At Rome he donned the See also:habit of the See also:preaching See also:friar and joined the monastery of See also:Minerva
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His Memoire pour le retablissement en France de l'ordre See also:des freres precheurs was then prepared and dedicated to his See also:country; at the same See also:time he collected the materials for the life of St Dominic
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When he returned to France in 1841 he resumed his preaching at Notre Dame, but he had small success in re-establishing the order of which he ever afterwards called himself See also: He had been elected to the See also:Academy in the preceding See also:year . The best edition of Lacordaire's See also:works is the fEuvres completes (6 vols., Paris, 1872-1873), published by C . Poussielgue, which contains, besides the Conferences, the exquisitely written, but uncritical, See also:Vie de Saint Dominique and the beautiful Lettres a un jeune homme sur la vie chretienne . For a See also:complete See also:list of his published See also:correspondence see L . See also:Petit de Julleville's Histoire de la langue et de la litterature francaise, vii . 598 . The authoritative See also:biography is by Ch . Foisset (2 vols., Paris, 187o) . The religious aspect of his See also:character is best shown in Pere B . Cho-carne's Vie du Pere Lacordaire (2 vols., Paris, 1866—See also:English See also:translation by A . Th . See also:Drane, See also:London, 1868) ; see also See also:Count C . F . R. de Montalembert's Un Moine au XIXeni, siecle (Paris, 1862—English translation by F . Aylward, London, 1867) . There are lives by Mrs H . L . See also:Lear (London, 1882) ; by A . See also:Ricard (1 vol. of L'Ecole menaisienne, Paris, 1883); by See also:Comte 0. d'See also:Haussonville (1 vol., See also:Les Grands ecrivains See also:Francais See also:series, Paris, 1897) ; by See also:Gabriel Ledos (Paris, 1901); by Dora Greenwell (1867); and by the duc de See also:Broglie (Paris, 1889) . The Correspondance inedite du Pere Lacordaire, edited by H . See also:Villard (Paris, 187o), may also be consulted . See also Saint-Beuve in Causeries de Lundi . Several of Lacordaire's Conferences have been translated into English, among these being, Jesus See also:Christ (1869) ; See also:God (187o); God and See also:Man (1872); Life (1875) . For a theological study of the Conferences de Notre Dame, see an See also:article by See also:Bishop J . C . Hedley in See also:Dublin See also:Review (See also:October 187o) . |
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