LOUIS

See also:

• LOUIS VEUILLOT (1813–1883)

VEUILLOT (1813–1883)  , French journalist and man of letters, was born of humble parents at Boynes (Loiret) on the 11th of October 1813 . When Louis Veuillot was five years old his parents removed to Paris . After a very slight education he entered a lawyer's office, and was sent in 1830 to serve on a Rouen paper, and afterwards to Perigueux . He returned to Paris in 1837, and a year later visited Rome during Holy Week . There he embraced extravagant ultramontane sentiments, and was from that time an ardent champion of Catholicism . The results of his conversion appeared in Pelerinage en Suisse (1839), Rome at Lorette (1841) and other works, In 1843 he entered the staff of the Univers religieux . His violent methods of journalism had already provoked more than one duel, and for his polemics against the university of Paris in the Univers he was imprisoned for a short time . In 1848 he became editor of the paper, which was suppressed in 186o, but revived in 1867, when Veuillot recommenced his ultra-montane propaganda, which brought about a second suppression of his journal in 1874 . When his paper was suppressed Veuillot occupied himself in writing violent pamphlets directed against the moderate Catholics, the Second Empire and the Italian government . His services to the papal see were fully recognized by Pius IX., on whom he wrote (1878) a monograph . He died on the 7th of March 1883 . Some of his scattered papers were collected in Melanges religieux, historiques et litteraires (12 vols., 1857–75), and his Correspondance (6 vols., 1883–85) has great political interest .

His younger

brother, Eugene Veuillot, published (1901–4) a comprehensive and valuable life, Louis Veuillot .