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Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henry
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or A celebrated French preacher, and one of the most brilliant orators of the century; bred for the bar; held sceptical opinions at first, but came under the influence of religion; took orders as a priest and became associated with Montalembert and Lamennais as joint-editor of the Avenir , a journal which advocated views at once Ultramontane and radical, but which, being condemned by the Pope, was discontinued; after this he took to preaching, and immense crowds gathered to hear his conferences, as they were called, in the church of Notre Dame, where, to the astonishment of all, he appeared in the pulpit in guise of a Dominican monk with the tonsure; he was afterwards elected member of the Constitutent Assembly, where he sat in his monk's attire, but he soon retired; he ended his days as head of the Military College of Sorrèze (1802-1861).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henry'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/lacordaire-jean-baptiste-henry.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
