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BONALD, LOUIS-JACQUES-MAURICE de - Cardinal, son of the philosopher, b. at Millau in Aveyron on 30 Oct. 1787 and d. at Lyons on 25 Feb. 1870. Ordained priest in 1811, he was for some time chaplain to the Dauphin of France (Charles X). Vicar general of the diocese of Chartres, on 13 March 1823 he was elected bishop of Puy (the first after 1789), and in 1839 succeeded Card. Fesch as archbishop of Lyons and primate of France, receiving the cardinal’s hat in 1841. In 1852 he was created senator.
A supporter of the struggle against Gallicanism, he endeavoured to eradicate its last offshoots by refusing to teach the Gallican Articles and by condemning the work of a fanatic of Gallicanism, supported by the government, Dupin: Manuel de droit canonique. He promoted the reform of liturgical books of the Gallican rite in order to extirpate their Jansenist infiltrations. Against the state monopoly of education, he defended the rights of freedom of teaching. He left no written works other than: Mandements et Lettres pastorales, published by Migne in the collection: Orations sacrées (Paris, 2nd series, XIV).
BIBL.: L. Baunard, L'épiscopat français depuis le concordat jusqu'à la séparation, 1802-1905, Paris 1907, pp. 314-16; 487-88; P. Paschini, s. V. ENOCH. Ital., VII, p. 381; P. Calendini, s. V. in DHG, IX, cols. 727-29. Vito Zollini
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“BONALD, LOUIS-JACQUES-MAURICE DE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 1054. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/bonald-louis-jacques-maurice-de.
