CARRON, GUY-TOUSSAINT-JULIEN

CARRON, GUY-TOUSSAINT-JULIEN. - Priest and ascetical writer, b. at Rennes on 23 Feb. 1760, d. at Paris on 13 March 1821. He was above all a man of great action; at Rennes he founded a sailcloth factory, thus providing work for 2,000 poor people, and a refuge for converts. In exile in Jersey (1792) and in London (1796), because he had refused to take the oath imposed by the Revolution, he opened schools, pharmacies, and libraries there for the émigrés, and even a seminary in London. Having returned to Paris in 1815, he established there a boarding school for girls under the name of the royal institute of St. Teresa. His extremely active life did not, however, prevent him from composing numerous ascetical works, among them: Pensées ecclésiastiques (4 vols., London 1800); L'ami des maurs ou lettres sur l'éducation (4 vols., there 1805); Les confesseurs de la Foi dans l'Eglise gallicane à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (4 vols., Paris 1820).