Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
French bishop and theologian
Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet was a French bishop and theologian. Renowned for his sermons, addresses and literary works, he is regarded as a brilliant orator and literary stylist of the French language. Wikipedia
Born: September 27, 1627, Dijon, France
Died: April 12, 1704 (age 76 years), Paris, France
Parents: Marguerite Mouchet and Beneigne Bossuet
Church: Roman Catholic Church
Diocese: Meaux
Books
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
1709
Oraisons Funebres
1689
Sermons: 4
An Introduction To, Or a Short Discourse Concerning, Universal History. In Two Parts. Faithfully Compared With, and Done (with Some Little Alterations) From the Original of ... James Benigne Bossuet, ... Now Published by Richard Spencer,
A Discourse on the History of the Whole World: Dedicated to His Royal Highness the Dauphin and Explicating the Continuance of Religion with the Changes of States and Empires, from the Creation Till the Reign of Charles the Great
1686
Bossuet and His Contemporaries. By the Author of "A Dominican Artist" [i.e. Henrietta Louisa Farrer, Afterwards Lear], Etc
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