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See also:RICHARD, See also:FRANCOIS See also:MARIE See also:BENJAMIN (18,9-1908) , See also:archbishop of See also:Paris, See also:French See also:prelate, was See also:born at See also:Nantes on the 1st of See also:March 1819. Educated at the See also:seminary of St Sulpice he became successively See also:vicar-See also:general of Nantes, See also:bishop of See also:Belley, and in 1875 coadjutor of Paris. In 1886 the See also:death of Archbishop See also:Guibert was followed by Mgr. Richard's See also:appointment to the see of Paris, and in 188g he received a See also:cardinal's See also:hat. In See also:January 1900 the trial of the Assumptionist Fathers resulted in the See also:dissolution of their society as an illegal association. Next See also:day an See also:official visit of the archbishop to the Fathers was noted by See also:government as an See also:act of a See also:political See also:character, and Mgr. Richard was officially censured. His attitude was in general exceedingly moderate, he had no See also:share in the extremist policy of the Ultramontanes, and throughout the struggle over the See also:law of Associations and the law of Separations he maintained his reasonable See also:temper. He presided in See also:September 1906 over an See also:assembly of bishops and archbishops at his See also:palace in the See also:rue de Grenelle, a few days after the papal encyclical forbidding French Catholics to See also:form associations for public See also:worship, but it was then too See also:late for conciliation. In See also:December he gave up the archiepiscopal palace to the government authorities: He was then an old See also:man of nearly ninety, and his " eviction " evoked See also:great sympathy. Cardinal Richard died on the 29th of January 1908.
End of Article: RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
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