**LA FORÊT, NICOLAS-JOSEPH.** - Belgian prelate and theologian, born at Graide on 23 February 1823, died at Louvain on 26 January 1872. He was professor and later rector magnificus (1865) of the University of Louvain, where he promoted the development of traditionalism.
He wrote important works: *Dissertatio historico-dogmatica de methodo theologiae sive de auctoritate Ecclesiae Catholicae tamquam regula fidei christianae* (Louvain 1849); *Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire de la théologie dogmatique* (ibid. 1851); *Philosophie morale* (ibid. 1855); *Dogmes catholiques exposés, prouvés et venés des attaques de l'hérésie et de l'incrédulité* (4 vols., Brussels 1855-59); *La papauté et la civilisation européenne* (Louvain 1860); *Des erreurs philosophiques contemporaines* (ibid. 1862); *Le Syllabus et les plaies de la société moderne* (ibid. 1872, posthumous). He also published other works and numerous articles in scholarly journals.
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