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.
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He prepared at Bossuet School for the "Borda," French Annapolis, flunked, was too old to try again.
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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.
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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
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 G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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