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Perreyve, Henri

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Roman Catholic writer of France, was born at Paris in 1831. At the age of twenty he was made a priest, and in 1861 he was professor of Church history at the Sorbonne. He died in 1865, leaving La Journee des Malades, an ascetical work. Father Gratry, the teacher of Perreyve, wrote Vie de Henri Perreyve (Paris, 1866). See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.)