Bossuet, JACQUES

BENIGNE, D.D., 1627-1704. Bp. of Condom 1669 and of Meaux 1681. Noted for eloquence and of unbounded influence in the Gallican Church; a chief mover for the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 1685. Funeral Orations, 1680; Universal History, 1681; Variations of the Protestant Churches, 1688.