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Ledieu, Francois
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
abbe, a French ecclesiastic, noted as a writer, was born at Peronne about the middle of the 17th century. In 1684 he became private secretary of the celebrated French pulpit orator Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, and was by this prelate made canon of the church at Meaux. He died at Paris Oct. 7,1713. He wrote Memoires et Journal de l'Abbe Ledieu sur la vie et les ouvrages de Bossuet (Paris, 1856-57,4 vols. 8vo), upon which the late Sainte-Beuve thus comments: "L'abbe Ledieu n'a pas le dessein de diminuer Bossuet, mais il souvient son illustre maitre h une epreuve it laquelle pas une grande figure ne resisterait; il note jour par jour a l'epoque de la maladie derniere et d dedeclin tous les actes et toutes les paroles de faiblesse qui lui echappent, jusqu'aux plaintes et doleances aux quelles on se laisse aller la nuit quand on se croit seul, et dans cette observation il porte un esprit de petitesse qui se prononce de plus en plus en avanqant, un esprit has, qui n'est pas moins dangereux que ne le serait une malignite subtile" (Monitleur, Mar. 31, 1856). Ledieu also left in MS. Memoires sur l'Histoire et les Antiquiles du diocese de Mleaux. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 30:262.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Ledieu, Francois'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​l/ledieu-francois.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.