GAYRAUD, HIPPOLYTE. - Theologian and politician, b. at Lovit (Tarn-et-Garonne) in 1856, d. at Bourg-la-Reine on 17 Dec. 1911. A Dominican in 1877, he taught theology and philosophy simultaneously at the College of his Order and at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse. Having obtained from the Pope permission to leave the Dominican habit, in 1893 he abandoned teaching in order to devote himself entirely to politics and social propaganda. He was in fact deputy for the constituency of Brest, occupying the seat left vacant by the death of mons. d'Hulst; subsequently he was repeatedly re-elected. He fought strenuously against the separation of Church and State, often prevailing over the anticlericals.
Among his many works, the following are noteworthy: Thomisme et malinisme, I: Réplique au r. p. de Rignon (Toulouse 1880); Procédence et libre arbitre selon si Thomas d'Aquin (ibid. 1892); Si Thomas et le prédéterminisme (Paris 1895); L'antichristisme de si Thomas d'Aquin (ibid. 1896); Les démocrates chrétiens (ibid. 1899); La Foi devant la raison (ibid. 1906). He contributed regularly to the Revue du clergé français and the Revue de philosophie.
Niccolò Del Re