Jacques Benigne Bossuet

Bossuet, Jacques BÉnigne - zhäk bānēˈnyə bôsüāˈ, 1627–1704, French prelate, one of the greatest orators in French history. At an early age he was made a canon at Metz; he became bishop of Condom and was (1670–81) tutor to the dauphin (father of Louis XV), for whom he wrote his great Discourse on Universal History Read More...

Read full-text books and articles on:

Jacques Benigne Bossuet

1 .

Portraits of the Seventeenth Century: Historic and Literary (Chap. VIII "Bossuet")
by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. 450 pgs.

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents of part II

Illustrations to part II

I: History of the French Academy.

II: Pierre Corneille.

III: Mademoiselle de Scudéry.

IV: Moliere.

V: La Fontaine.

VI: pascaL.

VII: Madame de Sévigné.

VIII: Bossuet.

IX: Boileau.

X: Racine

XI: Madame de Caplus

XII: Fénelon

XIII: Comte Antoine Hamilton.

XIV: The Princesse des Ursins.
2 .

Essays on Church and State (Chap. VI "Bossuet")
by Lord Acton, Douglas Woodruff. 518 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

Introduction The Early Writings of Lord Acton

I Ultramontanism

Ii The States of the Church

Iii The Political System of the Popes

Iv The Munich Congress

V Mediaeval Fables of the Pope

Vi Bossuet

Vii Nicholas of Cusa

Viii Fra Paolo Sarpi

Ix The Catholic Press

X The Catholic Academy

Xi Political Causes of The American Revolution

Xii Notes on the Present State Of Austria

Xiii Confessions of Frederick The Great

Xiv Notices of Books

Index
3 .

The Social & Political Ideas of Some Great French Thinkers of the Age of Reason: A Series of Lectures Delivered at King's College, University of London, during the Session 1928-29 (Chap. II "Bossuet")
by F. J. C. Hearnshaw. 254 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Preface

Contents

I: The Age of Reason

Bibliography

II: Bossuet

Bibliography

III: FÉnelon

Bibliography

IV: The AbbÉ De Saint-Pierre

Bibliography

V: Montesquieu

Bibliography

VI: Voltaire

Bibliography

VII: Rousseau

Bibliography

VIII: HelvÉtius and Holbach

Bibliography

IX: Morelly and Mably

Bibliography
4 .

Studies in Self-Interest: From Descartes to La Bruyere (Chap. 10 "Bossuet")
by A. J. Krailsheimer. 222 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

I: Sixteenth Century Background

II: Descartes

III: Cornielle

IV: Retz

V: La Rochefoucauld

VI: Pascal: Lettres Provinciales

VII: Pascal: Method

VIII: Pascal: Pensees

IX: Moliere

X: Bossuet

XI: La Bruyere

Index
5 .

From Enlightenment to Revolution (Chap. 1 "The Emergence of Secularized History: Bossuet and Voltaire")
by Eric Voegelin, John H. Hallowell. 310 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

CONTENTS

EDITOR'S PREFACE

I: The Emergence of Secularized History: Bossuet and Voltaire

II: Helvétius and the Genealogy of Passions

III: Helvétius and the Heritage Ofpascal

IV: Postivism and Its Antecedents

V: The Conflict Between Progressand Political Existence Afterturgot

VI: The Apocalypse of Man: Comte

VII: The Religion Of Humanity Andthe French Revolution

VIII: Revolutionary Existence: Bakunin

IX: Bakunin: the Anarchist

X: Marx: Inverted Dialectics

XI: Marx: the Genesis of Gnostic Socialism

Index
6 .

Catholic Political Thought, 1789-1848 (Chap. 3 "The Catholic Interpretation of the Secular Order: Bossuet and Pascal")
by Bela Menczer. 205 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

5. the Primacy of Politics: From Montesquieu to Bonald

I. Joseph De Maistre 1753-1821

Iii. FranÇois RenÉ, De Chateaubriand 1768-1848

Iv. HonorÉ De Balzac 1799-1850

V. Friedrich Von Schlegel 1772-1829

Viii. Jaime Balmes 1810-1848

Ix. Louis Veuillot 1813-1878
7 .

A History of French Literature ("Pulpit Oratory: Bossuet, Bourdaloue" begins on p. 388)
by C. H. Conrad Wright. 964 pgs.

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Part I: The Middle Ages

Chapter I: The Origins of French and of French Literature

Chapter II: The Epic

Chapter III: Romance

Chapter IV: Lyric Poetry

Chapter V: History, Biography, and Chronicles

Chapter VI: Fable Literature and Short Stories

Chapter VII: The Drama

Chapter VIII: Philosophy

Chapter IX: Erudition. Didactic and Allegorical Literature

Chapter X: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Part II: The Sixteenth Century

Chapter I: The Renaissance

Chapter II: The Growth of Humanism

Chapter III: The Transition in Poetry. the Rhetoriqueurs. Lemaire. Marot

Chapter IV: The Platonists

Chapter V: Rabelais

Chapter VI: The PlÉIade and Its Theories

Chapter VII: The PlÉIade and Its Work

Chapter VIII: The New Philosophy and the New Humanism

Chapter IX: The Drama

Chapter X: Reformers and Huguenots

Chapter XI: Montaigne

Chapter XII: Authors of Memoirs. Historians and Political Writers

Part III: The Seventeenth Century

Chapter I: Transition Writers

Chapter II: The Reform in Poetry. Malherbe. His Friends and Foes

Chapter III: The Reform in Prose and the Growth of Criticism. Balzac, the Academy, Vaugelas, Chapelain

Chapter IV: The Literary Ideals of Society. Their Exaggerations

Chapter V: The Novel. the Epic. Satire

Chapter VI: The Drama

Chapter VII: Corneille. Rotrou

Chapter VIII: Philosophy. Descartes. Cartesianism

Chapter IX: Religion. Jansenism. Port-Royal. Pascal

Chapter X: Religion. Morals and Education

Chapter XI: Racine

Chapter XII: MoliÈre

Chapter XIII: Boileau. the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns

Chapter XIV: Pulpit Oratory. Bossuet. Bourdaloue

Chapter XV: FÉnelon

Chapter XVI: The Women of the Grand SiÈCle

Chapter XVII: Men of the World. Scholars, Journalists and Moralists

Chapter XVIII: La Fontaine and the Poets

Part IV: The Eighteenth Century

Chapter I: The Eighteenth Century

Chapter II: Bayle and Fontenelle

Chapter III: The Esprit of the Eighteenth Century the Salons. Journalists

Chapter IV: Tragedy

Chapter V: Miscellaneous Dramatic Forms: Regular Comedy, the Comedy of the Italians, the Tearful Comedy and Drame Bourgeois; the ThÉAtre de la Foire; Opera

Chapter VI: Fiction

Chapter VII: Montesquieu. Political Theorists, Historians, Moralists

Chapter VIII: Voltaire

Chapter X: Diderot and the Encyclopedia

Chapter XI: The Philosophes and Their Followers

Chapter XLL: Buffon and Saint-Pierre

Chapter XIII: Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Chapter XIV: Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Continued).

Chapter XV: Beaumarchais. the Coming of the Revolution

Chapter XVI: The Revolution

Part V: The Nineteenth Century

Chapter I: The Empire

Chapter II: Mme de StaËl

Chapter III: Chateaubriand

Chapter IV: The Trend of Thought (1815-1850). Politics and Religion. Romantic Manifestations

Chapter V: The Trend of Thought (1815-1890). Philosophers and Sociologists

Chapter VI: Romanticism

Chapter VII: The Poets

Chapter VIII: Victor Hugo

Chapter IX: The Drama

Chapter X: Fiction

Chapter XI: Historians, Critics, and Publicists

Chapter XII: The Second Half of the Century. Sainte-Beuve, Taine, and Renan

Chapter XIII: Fiction

Chapter XIV: The Drama

Chapter XV: Poetry

Chapter XVI: Philosophers, Historians, Orators, Critics, and Journalists

Part VI: The Twentieth Century

Chapter I: The Tendencies

Chapter II: The Writers

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Names
8 .

The World's Famous Orations, Vol. VII ("Bossuet -- On the Death of the Great Conde" begins on p. 63)
by William Jennings Bryan, Francis W. Halsey. 264 pgs.

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

Part I Early Christianity

St.Chrysostom: The Blessings of Death (about 380)

St. Augustine: On the Lord's Prayer

Abelard: The Divine Tragedy

Part II: The Reformation

Savonarola

Zwingli: On Mercenary Soldiers (about 1530)

Luther: Before the Diet of Worms

Melanchthon: On the Death of Luther (1546)

Calvin: On Suffering Persecution

Part III: Modern France

Bossuet: On the Death of the Great CondÉ

Bourdaloue: On the Passion of Christ

Fenelon: True and False Simplicity

Massillon: Of A Malignant Tongue

Desmoulins: Better to Die Than Not LIVe Free

Mirabeau

Barnave: Against Majority Absolutism

Vergniaud: On the Situation in France

Danton

Robespierre

Marat: In His Own Defense

Cambon: On the Situation in France

St. Just: Invective Against Danton

BarÈre: On the Heroism of the "Vengeur'S" Sailors

Napoleon

Carnot: Against Setting Up An Emperor

Lamartine: To A Deputation of Poles

Hugo: In Defense of His Son

Gambetta: Education for the Peasantry in France

Baron D'Estournelles De Constant: France and the United States

JaurÈs: In the Debate on Socialism with Clemenceau

Clemenceau: In the Debate on Socialism with JaurÈs

Part IV: Italy

Mazzini: To the Young Men of Italy

Garibaldi: To His Soldiers

Cavour: Rome as the Capital of United Italy

Part V: Modern Germany, Hungary and Spain

Frederick the Great

Bismarck: The Canossa Speech

Kossuth: On His Welcome to New York

Castelar: Plea for A Republic in Spain

Apponyi: On the Death of Louis Kossuth
9 .

Politics & Religion in Seventeenth-Century France: A Study of Political Ideas from the Monarchomachs to Bayle, as Reflected in the Toleration Controversy ("The Absolutist Theory: Louis XIV, Bossuet, Merlat" begins on p. 162)
by W. J. Stankiewicz. 276 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Non. IL Fut Gallican, Ce Siècle, Et Janséniste!...

I: The Background

II: The Edict of Nantes

III: The Downward Trend: The Influence of Richelieu's Policy and Doctrine

IV: Mazarin: the Triumph Of Monarchism

V: The Climax

VI: Consequences of The Revocation

Postscript

Selected Bibliography

Index
10 .

Royalist Political Thought during the French Revolution (Chap. VI "Du Voisin, Bossuet, and the French Revolution")
by James L. Osen. 158 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Read Synopsis [+]

Hide Synopsis [-]

This book treats two basic subjects: (1) royalist explanations of the causes of the French Revolution, and (2) royalist defenses of royalist political positions. The royalists began with a simplistic conspiracy theory of history--the Old Regime was right. But then they came up with increasingly sophisticated explanations, thereby making an important contribution to historical explanation. In political thought, they eventually offered a tempered defense of the Old Regime, a call for political elitism in the face of the chaos unleashed by the Revolution, and an early explanation of the organic theory of history, a true contribution to political thought.

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I Early Royalist Explanations of the Causes of the French Revolution

NOTES

Chapter II French Royalist Political Thought, 1789-1791

NOTES

Chapter III French Royalist Thought, 1791-1792

NOTES

Chapter IV Royalism During the Terror

NOTES

Chapter V French Royalism During Thermidor and the Directory

NOTES

Chapter VI Du Voisin, Bossuet, and the French Revolution

NOTES

Chapter VII the Royalist Press and the Directory

NOTES

Chapter VIII Royalist Historiography and Royalist Political Thought

NOTES

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
11 .

The Stage Controversy in France from Corneille to Rousseau (Chap. VII "The Quarrel of 1694: Bossuet Anathematizes the Stage")
by M. Barras. 358 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Contents

1. the Condemnation of the Theatre by the Church Fathers. the Social Stigma of Actors.

Ii. Corneille and the Purification of the Stage. the Aristotelians on the Moral Utility of Theatrical Art.

Iii. Richelieu and the Glorification of the Stage. the Actors Are Granted Civil Rights (1641).

Iv. Denunciation of the Stage by the Jansenists: Pascal and Nicole -- the Defense by Racine and Corneille.

V. Molière and the Cabale of Tartuffe. the Conversion of the Prince De Conti. D'A Ubignac and Voisin.

Vi. Chappuzeau's Apology of the Stage. Racine's Renunciation and His Return to the Biblical Play.

Vii. the Quarrel of 1694: Bossuet Anathematizes the Stage.

Viii. the Introduction of a Regular Stage Censorship. Defenders of the Theatre Among the Clergy. Boileau Participates in the Controversy.

Ix. the Defense of the Stage Under the Regency. the Return of the "Italiens." the Utopias of the Abbé De Saint-Pierre. Voltaire and the Death of Adrienne Lecouvreur. the Refusal of Church Burial to Actors.

X. the Philosophers and the Jesuits in Favor of the Stage. Voltaire's Crusade. the Attitude of the Pope. the Influence of Father Porée.

Xi. Renewal of the Campaign Against the Stage in France, Spain and Italy Before Rousseau. the Defense: the Stage Extolled as a "School of Virtue." Eulogies of Actors. Their Private Conduct.

Xii. Rousseau Proclaims the Stage a "School of Vice." the Traditional Nature of His Argu2mentation. Survey of the Stage Controversy Immediately Following Rousseau; Its Limited Influence.

Conclusion: the Triumph of the Stage and the Actors.

Bibliography
12 .

Bossuet and the Consenses of the Church, in Theological Studies
by Richard F. Costigan. 19 pgs.

Journal Article

Read/Write Review
13 .

From Enlightenment to Revolution (Chap. I "The Emergence of Secularized History: Bossuet and Voltaire")
by Eric Voegelin, John H. Hallowell. 310 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

CONTENTS

EDITOR'S PREFACE

I: The Emergence of Secularized History: Bossuet and Voltaire

II: Helvétius and the Genealogy of Passions

III: Helvétius and the Heritage Ofpascal

IV: Postivism and Its Antecedents

V: The Conflict Between Progressand Political Existence Afterturgot

VI: The Apocalypse of Man: Comte

VII: The Religion Of Humanity Andthe French Revolution

VIII: Revolutionary Existence: Bakunin

IX: Bakunin: the Anarchist

X: Marx: Inverted Dialectics

XI: Marx: the Genesis of Gnostic Socialism

Index
14 .

Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie de L'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717) (Discussion of Bossuet begins on p. 129)
by Marie-Florine Bruneau. 279 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie De L'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717)

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Female Mysticism

Part One: Marie De L'Incarnation (1599-1672)

Chapter Two: The Female Mystical Body in Transition

Chapter Three: From France to Danada/ from Motherhood to Subjecthood

Chapter Four: The Rouble Wind

Chapter Five: The Confrontation Between "Civilized" and "Savage" Femininity in the New World

Part Two: Madame Guyon (1648-1717)

Chapter Six: A Figure of Transition

Chapter Seven: The Quarrel of Quietism and the Construction of Modern Femininity

Chapter Eight: Guyon's Autobiography at the Crossroads of History

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
15 .

The Church in the Seventeenth Century ("Bossuet" begins on p. 260 and "Bossuet versus Fenlon" begins on p. 386)
by H. Daniel-Rops, J. J. Buckingham. 470 pgs.

Book

Read/Write Review

Show Table of Contents [+]

Hide Table of Contents [-]

Title Page

Translator's Note

Contents

Map

Chapter I: A Builder of the Modern Church: St Vincent De Paul

Chapter II: An Age of Spiritual Grandeur

Chapter III: Europe Digs New Foundations

Chapter IV: Louis Xiv: 'Most Christian King'

Chapter V: Christians of the Classical Period

Chapter VI: The Doctrinal Crises Of Jansenism and Quietism

Chronological Table

Select Bibliography

Index of Principal Names

Read the full text of these publications and more with a FREE trial.

Search the entire Questia Library for more on: Jacques Benigne Bossuet

View all books and articles on Jacques Benigne Bossuet

Jacques Benigne Bossuet - Related Topics

Visitors researching Jacques Benigne Bossuet also searched on:

jacques benigne bossuet

Search the Library

Related Topics

Click here for more books and articles on Jacques Benigne Bossuet

Read more than 5,000 classic books FREE!

Back to top

Newsletter | Privacy Policy | User Agreements | Questia School | About Us | Advertise with Us | Contact | Tools for Webmasters | Requirements | FREE BOOKS | Questia Library for iPhone/iPod Touch

Questia, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning © Copyright 2012. All rights reserved. All service marks and trademarks are property of
Cengage Learning and its affiliates. Any advertising or navigational links included on this site are not necessarily
endorsed by the publishers or content providers whose materials appear on this site.

The Questia.com advertising network includes: