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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
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Definition:[1627-1704]a French bishop who was renown for being a brilliant orator. He was King Louis XIV's court preacher. Preferring to keep his head attached to his body, he advocated the divine right of kings - claiming that kings received their power directly from God.
portrait: by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1698)
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Later, with myrrh and olibanum, the mystic odours, austere and powerful, the pompous gesture of the great period, the redundant artifices of oratorial art, the full, sustained harmonious style of Bossuet and the masters of the pulpit were almost possible.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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here was a living Bossuet, whose work would reconcile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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