Châtel, Ferdinand

FRANÇOIS, a French theologian, and founder of the so-called French Catholic Church, в. 1795. He was ordained to the priesthood, and, 1823-30, be came a popular preacher in Paris. After the revolution, 1830, he seceded from the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, and opened a church for the di emination of his own newly formed views, which ignored the divinity of Christ, and were altogether materialistic. His doc trines met with no succe . In 1848 he became an advocate of woman's rights, and D. in obscurity in 1857. Châtelain, Châtelaine, ( shat'e - lan ,) n. The names formerly given in France, the first to the male, and the second to the female owner of a château, or castle. Hence, the word chatelaine has been applied to an ornament worn by ladies, as a girdle or collar-chain, to which are attached their watches, keys, trinkets, . Châtelet, n. [Fr.] A small castle. The word was almost exclusively applied in France to two ancient courts of justice and prisons in Paris: Le grand Châte let , and Le petit Châtelet.