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See also:BOURDALOUE, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS (1632-1704) , See also:French Jesuit and preacher, was See also:born at See also:Bourges on the loth of See also:August 1632. At the See also:age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus, and was appointed successively See also:professor of See also:rhetoric, See also:philosophy and moral See also:theology, in various colleges of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order. His success as a preacher in the provinces determined his superiors to See also:call him to See also:Paris in 1669 to occupy for a See also:year the See also:pulpit of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Louis. Owing to his eloquence he was speedily ranked in popular estimation with See also:Corneille, See also:Racine, and the other leading figures of the most brilliant See also:period of Louis XIV.'s reign. He preached at the See also:court of See also:Versailles during the See also:Advent of 167o and the See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
Lent of 1672, and was subsequently called again to deliver the Lenten course of sermons in 1674, 1675, 168o and 1682, and the Advent sermons of 1684, 1689 and 1693. This was all the more noteworthy as it was the See also:custom never to call the same preacher more than three times to court. On the revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes he was sent to See also:Languedoc,to confirm the new converts in the See also:Catholic faith, and he had extraordinary success in this delicate See also:mission. Catholics and Protestants were unanimous in praising his fiery eloquence in the Lent sermons which he preached at See also:Montpellier in 1686. Towards the See also:close of his See also:life he confined his See also:ministry to charitable institutions, hospitals and prisons, where his sympathetic discourses and conciliatory See also:manners were always effective. He died in Paris on the 13th of May 1704. His See also:peculiar strength See also:lay in his See also:power of adapting himself to audiences of every See also:kind, and throughout his public career he was highly appreciated by all classes of society. His See also:influence was due as much to his saintly See also:character and to the gentleness of his manners as to the force of his reasoning.
See also:Voltaire said that his sermons surpassed those of See also:Bossuet (whose retirement in 1669, however, practically coincided with Bourdaloue's See also:early pulpit utterances); and there is little doubt that their simplicity and coherence, and the See also:direct See also:appeal which they made to hearers of all classes, gave them' a superiority over the more profound sermons of Bossuet. Bourdaloue may be with See also:justice regarded as one of the greatest French orators, and many of his sermons have been adopted as See also:text-books in See also:schools.
L'Eloquence de Bourdaloue," in Revue See also:des deux mondes (August 1904), a See also:general inquiryinto the authenticity of the sermons and their general characteristics.
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