Educated by Jesuits at Nancy

he took orders, and lectured for some time at the Jesuit College of Pont-a-Mou on. One of the secretaries of the National A embly, he supported enthusiastically the abolition of the privileges of the nobles and clergy alike, and the civil constitution of the clergy. He was the first of his order to take the oaths, and was elected the first constitutional bishop of the department of Loir-et-Cher. At the blasphemous Feast of Reason, the weak Gobel, constitutional Bishop of Paris, publicly renounced Christianity; but Gregoire faced the infuriated rabble with all the courage of the primitive martyrs, and refused to deny his Master. After the 18th Brumaire he became a member of the Corps Leg is lat if. Lis extreme republicanism was highly dix tasteful to Bonaparte, and it was only after a third attempt that_he was a pointed member of the Senate. ro the conclusion of the concordat between Pius VII. and Bonaparte he ceased to exercise ecclesiastical functions, being unable conscientiously to give the retractations required by the hureh, He died in Auteuil, near Paris, May 28, 1831.