BAUSSET, LOUIS-FRANÇOIS de. - Cardinal, born at Pondicherry in India to a French family on 14 December 1748; he pursued his studies in France with the Jesuits. A priest in 1773, vicar general at Aix, administrator of Digne, he was appointed bishop of Alais (today Ales) in 1778. When the diocese was suppressed by virtue of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790), B. became an energetic defender of the rights of the Church. Forced to flee, he returned to France in 1792 and managed to survive the events of the Terror and the Directory. At the time of the Concordat he promptly renounced his diocese and devoted himself to literary works. He published in 1808, in 3 vols., a Histoire de Fénelon and in 1814 a Histoire de J. B. Bossuet, which were subsequently reprinted; in this last work he celebrates and defends the declaration of the Gallican clergy in 1682. B. was showered with honors by Louis XVIII; he entered the Academy in 1816 and was created cardinal on 28 July 1817. He died on 21 July 1824. In 1821 he published, among other biographies, that of Card. A. de Talleyrand-Périgord, archbishop of Paris, and of the abbé Emery.
Bibliography2 worksA. Burgement de Villeneuve, Notice historique sur le card B., Marseilles 1824; P. Calendini, s. v. in DHG, VI, col. 1500 sq.
BIBL.: A. Burgement de Villeneuve, Notice historique sur le card B., Marseilles 1824; P. Calendini, s. v. in DHG, VI, col. 1500 sq.
Paschini, Pio. “Bausset, louis-françois de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 1068–1069. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bausset-louis-francois-de.
MLA
Paschini, Pio. “Bausset, louis-françois de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1068–1069. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bausset-louis-francois-de.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_bausset_louis_francois_de,
author = {Paschini, Pio},
title = {Bausset, louis-françois de},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1068--1069},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bausset-louis-francois-de}
}
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