biography
| name: |
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne
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pronunciation:
[bosway]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1627–1704)
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| biography:
| Catholic churchman, and pulpit orator, born in Dijon, E France. He studied at Dijon and Paris, received a canonry at Metz (1652), and in 1661 preached before Louis XIV. His reputation as an orator spread over France, and he became tutor to the Dauphin. As Bishop of Meaux (1681) he took a leading part in the Gallican controversy, asserting the king's independence from the Roman Catholic Church in secular matters. |
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