Bossuet

American

[baw-swe] / bɔˈswɛ /

noun

Jacques Bénigne 1627–1704, French bishop, writer, and orator.

Bossuet British

/ bɔsɥɛ /

noun

Jacques Bénigne (ʒɑk beniɲ). 1627–1704, French bishop: noted for his funeral orations

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He prepared at Bossuet School for the "Borda," French Annapolis, flunked, was too old to try again.

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

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

It is a question whether Bossuet was not led, in the zeal of his antagonism, to make indefensible statements of a different tendency.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

Bossuet ran his finger over the titles as he pointed them out to the young Count.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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