Bossuet — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Bossuet — Louis XIV’s preacher, tutor to the Grand Dauphin, bishop of Meaux

Son of Dijon magistrates, a preacher summoned to the Louvre before the king in 1662, he was tutor to the Grand Dauphin, for whom he wrote the Discourse on Universal History, then bishop of Meaux. His funeral orations made the pulpit a literature; his quarrel with Fénelon had quietism condemned. (Editorial synthesis)

Bossuet was born on 27 September 1627. (source: BnF)

Bossuet was born in Dijon. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Bossuet died on 12 April 1704. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and BnF)

Bossuet died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and BnF)

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