biography
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Lacordaire, (Jean-Baptiste-) Henri
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pronunciation:
[la kaw(r)rdair]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1802–61)
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| biography:
| Writer and Dominican preacher, born at Recey-sur-Ource, E France. He studied jurisprudence in Dijon, then practised law in Paris. After a religious experience, he studied for the priesthood and was ordained in 1872. With Lamennais he founded L'Avenir, a journal advocating separation of the church and state. The journal was suppressed and Lamennais excommunicated. A brilliant orator, he is famous for his lectures at Notre-Dame (1844–51) known as the Lenten Conferences. Elected deputy for Marseille (1848), he founded Ère Nouvelle in the same year with Ozanam, to promote Christian Democrat ideas. His major achievement was the re-establishment of the Dominicans. Appointed head of the French Dominicans in 1850–4, he helped to make the order a religious and educational power in France. He succeeded Tocqueville at the Académie Française in 1860. |
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