Bossuet

From Bossuet to Pascal is to pass from the solemn splendour of the church to the chill of the crypt.

But French literature was certainly the gainer by the appointment of Bossuet to the post of tutor to the Prince.

He had as little sympathy with liberty as Plato or as Bossuet, and less than the eighteenth century philosophers.

Not that Bossuet literally supposed that the last word of political wisdom had been said by the Old Testament.