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Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) French prelate and noted orator. "Bossuet is considered the greatest ecclesiastical orator known in history. His orations at the funerals of the Duchess of Orleans and the great Condé are particularly famous as masterpieces of this kind of eloquence." (The New International Encyclopaedia Vol III, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 568.)
C. A.Sainte-Beuve, Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Part 2 (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904) 220.
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