biography
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Lamennais or La Mennais, Félicité
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in full (Hugues-) Félicité (-Robert de) Lamennais
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pronunciation:
[lamenay]
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| lived:
| (1782–1854)
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| biography:
| Writer and priest, born in St-Malo, W France. Ordained in 1817, he opposed Gallicanism in his Essai sur l'indifférence en mattière de religion (1818–24, Essay on Indifference towards Religion), which brought him acclaim, but later works began to show his readiness to combine Roman Catholicism with political liberalism, and were condemned by the pope in 1832. With Lacordaire and others he founded the Congrégation de St Pierre to promote Rome's doctrines, and the journal L'Avenir (1830). He renounced his priesthood in 1833 and finally abandoned Christianity. He was active in the 1848 revolution, and sat in the Constituent Assembly until the coup which established Louis-Napoleon as dictator. |
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