LACORDAIRE, JEAN BAPTISTE

French preacher, 6. at Racey-sur-Ource, Cédte-d’Or. He studied for some years at Dijon, where he distinguished himself by his rhetoric, and afterwards became famous as an advocate in Paris; but in 1823, having read Lamennais’s E ai sur UIndifference, was converted to Roman Catholicism and entered the seminary of Saint Sulpice. He was ordained priest in 1827 and chaplain to a convent and to the College Henri 1V. He a isted Lamennais in the editorship of L’ Avenir. In 1838 he set cut for Rome, where he joined the monastery of Nunciva, a uming the name Dominique, and prepared his de Vordre des Freres Precheurs, and collected materials for his Life of St. Dominic. _ His principal works are: Considerations sur le System PhiloVie de Saint Dominique, 1841; Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris, 183551; Conferences de Toulouse, 1854.