CARRON, Guy-Toussaint-Julien. – Priest, ascetical writer, b. at Rennes on 23 Feb. 1760, d. at Paris on 13 Mar. 1821. Above all, he was a man of great action; indeed, he founded in Rennes a factory for sailcloth, thereby providing work for 2,000 poor, and a refuge house for converts. In exile at Jersey (1792) and London (1796) for refusing to take the oath imposed by the Revolution, he opened schools, pharmacies, libraries for the émigrés, and even, in London, a seminary. Returning to Paris in 1815, he established there a boarding school for girls under the name of the Royal Institute of St Teresa. His exceedingly active life did not, however, prevent him from composing numerous ascetical works, among which: *Pensées ecclésiastiques* (4 vols., London 1800); *L'ami des mœurs ou lettres sur l'éducation* (4 vols., ibid. 1805); *Les confesseurs de la Foi dans l'Église gallicane à la fin du XVIIIe siècle* (4 vols., Paris 1820).
CARRON, GUY-TOUSSAINT-JULIEN
BIBL.: Anon., *Notice sur la vie de l'auteur*, at the beginning of the posthumous work: *L'ecclésiastique accompli*, 5th ed., Paris 1823; R. Heurtet, s.V. in DSP, II (1937), cols. 209–11 (with the complete list of works).