Bossuet
Americannoun
noun
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For 300 years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have known Saint Exupery at two schools, namely St. Jean, Fribourg, Switzerland and Bossuet, Paris, from 1915 to 1919, also knew him in Strasbourg when he was in the air force.
From Time Magazine Archive
He prepared at Bossuet School for the "Borda," French Annapolis, flunked, was too old to try again.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the present occasion, he not only found Bossuet alone, but was left with him for more than an hour, without any other visiter appearing.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
One of the sermons thus delivered is found in the works of Bossuet, but the original manuscript is said to be in the handwriting of the Archbishop of Cambray.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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