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In 1865, Fr. Hecker started a periodical which he named the Catholic World and in 1867 he founded the Catholic Publication Society to help publish and distribute them on a national level. Brownson wrote a number of articles for the Catholic World. In 1927, there was a growing curiosity toward the Catholic culture among the faith community. As ...
e. François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, PSS ( French: [fʁɑ̃swa də saliɲak də la mɔt fenəlɔ̃] ), more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 – 7 January 1715), was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first ...
e. François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand [a] (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition.
François Rabelais ( UK: / ˈræbəleɪ / RAB-ə-lay, US: / ˌræbəˈleɪ / -LAY, [2] [3] French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. [4] A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant ...
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre ( / ˈsɑːrtrə /, US also / ˈsɑːrt /; [5] French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key ...
Ivan Gundulić – poet; work embodies central characteristics of Catholic Counter-Reformation. Marko Marulić – poet; inspired by the Bible, Antique writers, and Christian hagiographies. Andrija Kačić Miošić – poet. Petar Preradović – was a Croatian poet, writer, and military general of Serb origin.
IC – Jesus (first and third letters of His name in Greek) Id. – Idus ("Ides") Igr. – Igitur ("Therefore") IHS – Jesus (a faulty Latin transliteration of the first three letters of *JESUS in Greek (ΙΗΣ); sometimes misinterpreted as Iesus Hominum Salvator "Jesus Saviour of Men". Ind. – Indictio ("Indiction")
The 16th century in France was a remarkable period of literary creation (the language of this period is called Middle French).The use of the printing press (aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon), the development of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery (through the wars in ...