Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (
September 27,
1627 -
April 12,
1704) was a
French bishop,
theologian, and renowned pulpit orator and
court preacher.Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the
theory of
political absolutism; he made the argument that
government was
divine and that
kings received their
power from
God. One of the most brilliant
orators of all time and a masterful
French stylist, the works best known to English speakers are his three great orations delivered at the funerals of
Henrietta Maria, widow of
Charles I of England (1669), her daughter,
Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orléans (1670), and the great soldier
Condé (1687).
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