Bossuet
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
Should we not go further, and say with Bossuet, “On the contrary, perfection is the reason of being.”
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
Bossuet regarded this flight as a gross act of disobedience; in the winter Madame Guyon was arrested and shut up in the Bastille.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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