Denis-Luc Frayssinous

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Denis-Antoine-Luc, comte de Frayssinous

Denis-Antoine-Luc, comte de Frayssinous (9 May 1765 – 12 December 1841) was a French prelate and statesman, orator and writer. He was the eighth member elected to occupy Seat 3 of the Académie Française in 1822.

Biography

De Frayssinous was born of humble parentage at

Saint Sulpice, delivered in the church of Saint Sulpice, Paris, from 1803 to 1809, to which admiring crowds were attracted by his lucid exposition and by his graceful oratory. The freedom of his language in 1809, when Napoleon had arrested the pope and declared the annexation of Rome to France, led to a prohibition of his lectures; and the dispersion of the congregation of Saint Sulpice in 1811 was followed by his temporary retirement from the capital. He returned with the Bourbons, and resumed his lectures in 1814; but the events of the Hundred Days again compelled him to withdraw into private life, from which he did not emerge until February 1816.[1]

As court preacher and almoner to

Lamennais, was received with favor by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities.[1]

The consecration of Frayssinous as bishop of

Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Villèle; and about the same time he was created a peer of France with the title of count. His term of office was chiefly marked by the recall of the Jesuits.[1]

In 1825 he published his lectures under the title Défense du christianisme. The work passed through 15 editions within 18 years, and was translated into several European languages. In 1828 he, along with his colleagues in the Villèle ministry, was compelled to resign office, and the subsequent revolution of July 1830 led to his retirement to Rome. Shortly afterwards he became tutor to the duke of Bordeaux (

Comte de Chambord) at Prague, where he continued to live until 1838. He died at Saint-Geniez-d'Olt on 12 December 1841.[1]

Literary quotations

In the famous novel of

Saint Sulpice
of the abbot Frayssinous, habitual readings while the permanence of Emma Rouault (not yet Bovary) in a nunnery.

References

  1. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Frayssinous, Denis Antoine Luc, Comte de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 43–44.Sources cited:
    • Louis Bertrand, Bibliothèque Sulpicienne (t. ii. 135 sq.; iii. 253) for bibliography
    • Mathieu-Richard-Auguste Henrion (Paris, 2 vols., 1844) for Vie de Mgr. Frayssinous, évêque d'Hermopolis (biography).

Further reading

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