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    Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (French: [bɔsɥɛ]; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses...
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  • Bossuet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), French bishop and theologian, uncle of Louis...
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    used in a sermon by 17th-century French bishop and theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: The coinage of the phrase in its current form, however, is conventionally...
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  • Discourse on Universal History (category Works by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet)
    l'histoire universelle) is a 1681 work of theology and philosophy by Roman Catholic bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666227/ v t e...
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  • Hautoy. Bossuet's brother was Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1664–1743), abbot of Savigny, and he was nephew by his father to another Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the...
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    Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the famous preacher who had been instrumental in his conversion, and changed his first name to that of Bossuet. Winsløw...
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    governor and was tutored by the great French preacher and orator Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, the Bishop of Meaux, seemingly without acceptable results. Philippe...
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    sister, Vera Oumançoff, lived with Jacques and Raïssa for almost all their married life. At the Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa soon became disenchanted...
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    Phillip 1911, p. 806. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1845). Sermons choisis de Bossuet. Sur le devoir des rois. Firmin-Didot. p. 219. bossuet sermons royalty. Romans...
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    secularization of history, the polemic against the Christian position of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was of interest. The humanists of the fifteenth century ignored...
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