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	Bossuet (1627-1704) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bossuet's reputation as a preacher spread to Paris, where his "Panégyrique de l'apôtre saint Paul" (1657; "Panegyric of the Apostle Saint Paul") and his "Sermon sur l'eminente dignité des pauvres dans l'église" (1659; "Sermon on the Sublime Dignity of the Poor in the Church") were particularly admired.
		Bossuet delivered the inaugural sermon to this body and also drew up its final statement, the Déclaration des quatre articles (“Declaration of Four Articles”), which was delivered, along with his famous inaugural sermon on the unity of the church, to the assembly of the French clergy in 1682.
		Bossuet was by nature very intellectual and had been nourished on theology, and thus he was unable to understand a form of mysticism that consisted of passive devotional contemplation and total abandonment to the divine presence of God.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Bossuet/Bossuet.html (1348 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
		Though living in Paris, Bossuet did not sever his connection with the cathedral of Metz; he continued to hold his benefice, and was even appointed dean in 1664, when his father, a widower, had just received the priesthood and become a canon of the same cathedral.
		Bossuet -- the Bossuet of the "Sermons" and of the "Funeral Orations" -- is a poet, a great poet; and he is lyrical in his blending of personal and interior emotions with the expression of the truths which he unfolds.
		This is why Bossuet was to work all his lifeand with all his strength for the reunion of the Churches, and to force himself to exert every effort for the attainment of those conditions which he believed necessary to that end.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02698b.htm (4253 words)

	Bossuet's Interest in the Church of England
		The result of Bossuet's inquiries into Anglican history was to convince him that the variations from the Edwardine to the Elizabethan forms were considerable and, as variations, deserving to be condemned for their inconsistency; but, nevertheless, that the changes themselves were in various respects distinctly in a Catholic direction.
		Bossuet's reasons for a favorable opinion were that the promise to protect the English Church as at present established by law involves nothing more than to leave the laws as they are and to administer in accordance with their directions.
		Bossuet asked Nelson to convey to the Bishop of St. David's the congratulations of the French Episcopate assembled in Paris for the service which he had rendered to the Catholic Church in so well defending the divinity of the Son of God.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/rc/bossuet1929.html (2827 words)

	Swiss Byrds: Biography of Fenelon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bossuet was determined to cross swords with his friend Fenelon and ruin him in the battle.
		Bossuet threw the totality of his influence behind a demand for the worst possible condemnation and in so doing tarnished his place in history.
		In the meantime, Bossuet and Louis XIV had seen to it that Madame Guyon had been imprisoned, without trial and without even charges being laid against her.
	www.swissbyrds.com /fenelon.asp (4002 words)

	Enjolras & Grantaire are Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Presently, Bossuet pulled a coin from his purse and spun it on the table.
		Bossuet flipped a pair of coins and walked to another table upon which a half-empty bottle of wine had been left.
		Bossuet rubbed a coin between his fingers, spun it high into the air, caught it in his right hand, and turned it over onto the back of his left.
	www.angelfire.com /gundam/otto/grayswandir/dead1.html (922 words)

	Theological Studies: Bossuet and the consenses of the church. (Catholic orator and author Jacques-Benigne Bossuet)@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Theological Studies: Bossuet and the consenses of the church.
		Theological Studies; 12/1/1995; Costigan, Richard F. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet was a well-respected Bishop of the Church of France during the 17th century.
		He was an accomplished orator and author of theological and historical works who supported the Fourth Article of the Declaration of the Gallican Clergy of 1682, which stipulated that consensus of the church is essential, as opposed to the pope's infallible definitions of the faith.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17924041&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (195 words)

	Reign of Louis XIV
		Bossuet argued first that govemment was divinely ordained so that humans could live in an organized society.
		Nevertheless, Bossuet cautioned, although a king's au thority was absolute, his power was not since he was limited by the law of God.
		Bossuet's distinction between absolute and arbitrary gov emment was not always easy to maintain.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/classes/louisxiv.html (1173 words)

	Francois FENELON (1651-1715)tutor to the Duke of Burgundy wrote TELEMAQUE for his charge
		The dispute was settled by the Pope in Bossuet's favor.
		According to Cardinal de Bausset, he induced Louis XIV to remove all troops and all evidences of compulsion from the places he visited, and it is certain that he proposed and insisted on many methods of which the king did not approve.
		Bossuet was already his friend, the great bishop was at the summit of his fame, and was everywhere looked up to as the oracle of the Church of France.
	www.geocities.com /daniellla.geo/fenelon.html (2563 words)

	Eighteenth-Century Thought - an international interdisciplinary journal - Volume One Contents
		Bossuet's support of the Anglican position constituted an about-face on his part that requires rigorous historical contextualization.
		Accordingly, this essay first delineates Bossuet's place in seventeenth- century Catholic polemic and his emergence as Europe's most effective spokesman for a Catholic Christendom in order to make clear the unresolvable contradictions between his polemical works on the one hand and his defense of the Anglicans on the other.
		It then examines specifically Bossuet's relations with England in order to provide an exemplary instance of how his vision of infallible religious authority and international Catholic unity began to lose its cultural appeal, and shows how this process was also reflected in developments on the Continent.
	www.eighteenthcenturythought.org /VolOneContents.html (1609 words)

	Jacques Benigne Bossuet Biography / Biography of Jacques Benigne Bossuet Biography Biography
		Jacques Bossuet was born in Dijon on Sept. 27, 1627.
		Bossuet was tonsured at the age of 10, a logical step for a seventh son in eventual need of a career.
		Bossuet might have pursued a worldly career had he not come under the influence of Vincent de Paul, whose apostolic ideal included charity to the poor, missionary zeal, and counterreformatory activity.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jacques-benigne-bossuet (235 words)

	On the Death of the Great Conde by Jacques Benigne Bossuet. Continental Europe (380-1906). Vol. VII. Bryan, William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bossuet’s works, in the best French edition (that of Lachat), comprise thirty-one volumes.
		Besides the one on the great Condé, from which passages are here given, two others are famous—those on Henrietta of England and her daughter, the Duchess of Orleans.
		“Bossuet,” says H. Morse Stephens, “in the simple grandeur of his language, stands alone among the orators of the golden age of French pulpit eloquence.” [back]
	www.bartleby.com /268/7/11.html (646 words)

	The News-Review - News
		Bossuet said he learns from every character he has ever played and finds all of his roles a challenge.
		Last year, Bossuet performed the leading role of Tevye in the high school's spring musical, "Fiddler on the Roof." Bossuet never had any singing lessons, but took on the role because it was difficult.
		Bossuet is grateful for the support of his parents, Jackie and Dave Bossuet, and his 21-year-old sister, Michelle.
	www.oregonnews.com /article/20041117/NEWS/111170059 (869 words)

	Bossuet, Hobbes, and Locke
		Bossuet and Hobbes advance convincing arguments for strong almost unlimited government as the answer to society's problems.
		Tremendously popular preacher and one of most prolific theological writers of time: chosen to be tutor of dauphin, that is the heir to the French throne, and later to the dauphin's son the heir to the heir.
		Bossuet goes to great lengths to show that a king has great responsibilities to his people, foremost of which are to ensure justice and peace--and the true religion.
	www.northern.edu /marmorsa/bosout.htm (1612 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Recent Acquisitions
		In 1779 Pajou exhibited a marble statue of Bossuet executed as part of a series by numerous sculptors of portraits of twenty-seven "Great Men" of France.
		This figure of Bossuet, cast from Pajou's own reduction of his marble, is one of twelve known Sèvres models from the series.
		Bossuet was the preeminent churchman of his time, renowned as an orator of exceptional power.
	www.metmuseum.org /Works_of_Art/recent_acquisitions/1998/co_rec_eur_1998_360.asp (225 words)

	Bossuet and the Consenses of the Church - Questia Online Library
		The first Vatican Council's solemn assertion that the pope's infallible definitions of the faith do not derive their "irreformability" from the consensus of the Church continues to stimulate research into the historical controversy which the council intended to settle.
		The present study attends closely to the concerns and ideas of a leading Gallican theologian, noting how his views on this ecclesial question are much more nuanced than those attributed to the Gallicans by their critics.
		Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704), bishop of Meaux from 1681, was one of the leading prelates of the Church of France in the 17th century.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5000374045 (266 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Louis-Ellies Dupin
		Like Petit-Didier Bossuet would not admit that any of the Greek or Latin Fathers differed from St. Augustine on the subject of grace, non that this matter could be called subtle, delicate, and abstract.
		Between Dupin and Bossuet there was a still wider difference." The liberty M. Dupin takes of so harshly condemning the greatest men of the Church should, in general, not be tolerated" (Bossuet, Œuvres, XXX, 513).
		Simon and Dupin had similar views and methods so that when Bossuet was writing the "Défense de la Tradition et des Saints Pères" (which did not appear, however, until 1743), he included both in his invectives against the "haughty critics" who inclined to rabbinism and the errors of Socinus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05204a.htm (913 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bossuet, on his side, admits that he had not previously read it properly, he only studied what seemed necessary to answer his opponent, and lacked that high complete knowledge of S. Francis's teaching as a whole which was necessary for taking a proper view of details and parts.
		Bossuet says further: "According to the spirit of his time he had perhaps less read the Fathers than the modern Scholastics." Did Bossuet remember that he was speaking of the age of Sirmond, of Bellarmine, of Venerable Canisius, and, we may say, of Petavius?
		Bossuet gives a full explanation of all the passages alleged by FÃ©nÃ©lon from S. Francis, but he was hampered, as FÃ©nÃ©lon was totally misled, by Maupas's erroneous account of S. Francis's famous temptation to despair.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/desales/love.xml (8962 words)

	IDS 261 – Western Civilization & Culture I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bishop Jacques Benige Bossuet (1627-1704) was one of the primary church leaders in France during the reign of King Louis XIV.
		He was well known throughout France as an excellent orator, and his fame earned him the position of tutor to the dauphin (the royal prince) from 1670 to 1681.
		Thus earning special favor with the king and court, Bossuet used his talents as a speaker and historian to write accounts that provided the proper "spin" on the political activities of Louis XIV, France's "Sun King," a ruler who epitomized the excesses of absolute monarchy.
	www.eureka.edu /emp/jrodrig/webpage/261P5.htm (378 words)

	Letters of Spiritual Direction - The Saint Austin Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the English-speaking world Bossuet is perhaps chiefly remembered for his controversy with Fénélon; in France (at least in secular France), as one of the greatest prose stylists in the language.
		And yet Bossuet was an authentic spiritual master in the tradition of St Francis de Sales, whose special gift was to blend devotion and common sense, vast learning and the practical experience of souls.
		The most remarkable thing about Bossuet's direction of souls is that he strives to make them independent of himself by teaching them to trust the Holy Spirit completely, to obey Him, and to be faithful to His inward guidance.
	www.saintaustin.org /lettersspirdir.html (276 words)

	The Frenchboys Mix-n-Match Challenge
		Bossuet took Courfeyrac's offered hand, and they walked arm-in-arm down the street, Bossuet occasionally slipping on a bit of ice while Courfeyrac seemed to walk ever steady and sure.
		Bossuet looked so wretched, standing in his sorry coat with melted snowflakes dripping from his nose, that Courfeyrac leaned over and kissed him quickly, laughing as he did so.
		Bossuet, stretching out on the floor and resting his head on Courfeyrac's legs, sighed.
	mixnmatch.frenchboys.net /courfeybossuet.html (792 words)

	ABSOLUTISM OR PARLIAMENTARISM, PART I: THE FRENCH OUTCOME (1560-1715) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bossuet affirmed that all power derived from God, and that those who held power must thus use it in accordance with God's own laws.
		At the same time, Bossuet reminded monarchs that while their power was absolute, it was not arbitrary.
		Thus, according to the absolutist principles of Bossuet, Louis XIV was the first and final voice of authority in his kingdom, and his word was subject to no challenge, save the power of God himself.
	www.unlv.edu /Faculty/gbrown/westernciv/wc201/wciv2c7/wciv2c7lsec3.html (270 words)

	LMFFI: "Glasses"
		"Bossuet," he announced in the same tone of voice said general might adopt after being defeated, captured, and bound to a stake by the enemy, "I can't find my glasses."
		Once he had paced the length of the room half a dozen times and made a show of tapping his foot for a minute of two, it occurred to him that Bossuet actually might not intend to acknowledge him again.
		Bossuet was smirking behind his book, he could tell.
	www.mv.com /users/ang/fanfic/fics/glasses.html (811 words)

	Not Worth the Weight \| bloodhorse.com
		The closest any racing secretary has come to earning his pay by assigning weights in a handicap was in 1944, when Bossuet, Brownie, and Wait A Bit hit the wire together in the seven-furlong Carter Handicap at Aqueduct.
		Bossuet carried 127 pounds under the weight assignments of racing secretary John B. Campbell, conceding nine pounds to Wait A Bit and 12 to Brownie.
		Among the also rans was Bossuet's more highly regarded stablemate, Apache, who was saddled with 132 pounds by Campbell.
	www.bloodhorse.com /articleindex/article.asp?id=14401 (661 words)

	French Revolution: Search
		Jacques–Benigne Bossuet (1627—1704), bishop of Meaux, was a well–known seventeenth–century peacher who believed that although France had a sizable minority of Protestants, France should have a single religion, Catholicism.
		At the same time, he was a Gallican, meaning he argued that the French clergy owed primary allegiance to the king rather than the Pope in Rome.
		His emphasis on religious unity and devotion to the French crown—rather than tolerance—appealed to Louis XIV, who appointed Bossuet tutor to heir, the "Dauphin" or crown prince.
	chnm.gmu.edu /revolution/searchfr.php?function=find&keyword=dauphin (1973 words)

	The World's Great Sermons - Bossuet (By Grenville Kleiser)
		Jacque Benigne Bossuet was born at Dijon, in Burgundy, in 1627.
		To ripe scholarship Bossuet added a voice that was deep and sonorous, an imposing personality, and an animated and graceful style of gesture.
		The other, raised to the very summit of glory by force of arms like another David, dies like him in his bed, sounding the praises of God and leaving his dying behests to his family, while all hearts were imprest as much by the splendor of his life as by the gentleness of his death.
	www.authorama.com /worlds-great-sermons-5.html (2966 words)

	Review Passages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Bossuet's Treatise on Politics, compiled and published in 1678, Louis XIV's court theologian makes a scriptural (or biblical) argument for a form of absolutism known as divine-right monarchy.
		In Bossuet's view, absolute monarchs have to respect certain elements of human society, such as the rule of law and the ownership of personal property.
		The historical significance of Bossuet's Treatise lies in that it encapsulates the concept and "myth" of absolutism as it came to be practiced in France during the reign of Louis XIV, and as it served as a model for other European states in the Old Regime, such as Spain.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~history5/review_passages.html (526 words)

	Leatherbound Books at Joslin Hall -Bookcase 2 [E-H]
		Flechier may be best remembered for his account of the "curious" Claremont Assizes of 1665, when Louis XIV brought his Auvergne nobles to heel, and which Flechier recorded for posterity.
		He was also a poet and historical author, but he was best known in his own time for his funeral orations which have been described as ingenious and often even witty.
		Bossuet, a child prodigy and an extremely important theological writer and theorist, was also simply the best orator in 17th century France, and he created the form of the "Orasion Funebres" of which he was undisputed master, not even rivaled by Flechier.
	www.joslinhall.com /leather2.htm (1231 words)

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