BAILLY, LOUIS. — Theologian, born in France near Beaune in 1730 and died in 1808. He was a canon of Dijon and professor of dogmatic theology at the seminary until the Revolution. Afterward, he moved to Switzerland, where he devoted himself to his studies. Returning to his homeland, he refused any dignity in order to dedicate himself solely to the service of the great hospice of Beaune.
His works include the following: *Theologia dogmatica et moralis* (8 vols., 3rd ed., Dijon 1810), a work of value used for decades as a school manual in various seminaries of France, but which incurred the condemnation of the Index in 1852 “donec corrigatur,” due to the excessive rigorism professed by the author; *Tractatus de vera religione* (6th ed., ibid. 1758), *Tractatus de Ecclesia* (2 vols., ibid. 1780), in which the principles of the Gallican declaration of 1682, drawn up by Bossuet and known under the name of the Gallican Articles, are defended; *I principi della fede cattolica*, a work composed during his stay in Switzerland.
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