biography
| name: |
Affre, Denis Auguste
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pronunciation:
[afr]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1793–1848)
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| biography:
| Prelate, born in St Rome-de-Tarn, S France. He succeeded Archbishop Quéten as Archbishop of Paris (1840–8) and established the École des Carmes (1845), which later became the Institut Catholique de Paris (1875). He was shot by a stray bullet while on the barricades in the Faubourg St Antoine during the insurrection of 1848, and died of his injuries. His works include Introduction philosophique à l'étude du Christianisme. |
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