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100 1 _aBossuet, Jacques Bénigne,
_d1627-1704
245 1 0 _aOraisons funèbres
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-12
505 0 _aPréface -- Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France -- Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Anne d'Angleterre -- Oraison funèbre de Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche -- Oraison funèbre d'Anne de Gonzague de Clèves -- Oraison funèbre de Michel le Tellier -- Oraison funèbre de Louis de Bourbon -- Appendice: Bourdaloue. Fléchier. Massillon. Lacordaire.
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _aOraisons funèbres by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet is a collection of funeral orations written in the late 17th century. The work turns public eulogies for princes and great ladies into powerful sermons that fuse history, Scripture, and moral instruction, meditating on divine providence and the vanity of earthly power through the lives and deaths of figures such as Henrietta Maria of France and Henriette-Anne, Duchess of Orléans. The opening of this collection presents a preface by René Doumic explaining how Bossuet remade the courtly funeral speech into truthful, edifying eloquence—anchored in personal witness, precise historical detail, fearless judgment, and theological depth centered on grace and Providence. It then launches into the oration for Henrietta Maria, invoking “Now, O kings, understand” to frame her life as an example to rulers: from royal splendor to exile, she is praised for charity, prudence, constancy in the Catholic faith, and for consoling English Catholics; Bossuet broadens this into a critique of religious schism feeding civil rebellion, sketches the rise of a single commanding figure as an instrument of Providence, and recounts the queen’s perilous voyages, negotiations, flight to France, spiritual purification through suffering, and the later restoration of her son, after which she lives humbly and charitably. The text then turns to the next oration, for Henriette-Anne, striking the theme “Vanity of vanities” as it contrasts her recent acclaim with her sudden death, and outlines a double lesson: the nothingness of worldly greatness and the true weight of fearing God. It begins to trace her illustrious lineage, grace, and admired presence at the French court, leading to her marriage into the House of France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Aristide Quillet, 1928
653 _aCatholic Church -- Sermons
653 _aFuneral sermons
653 _aSermons, French
700 1 _aDoumic, René,
_d1860-1937
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9612397h
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77452
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