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5 unusual facts about Charles Forbes René de Montalembert


Charles Forbes René de Montalembert

He severed his connection with Père Hyacinthe Loyson as he had with Lamennais and made the submission expected of him to the council.

Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (March 18, 1810 London - March 13, 1870 Paris) was a French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres.

Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale

Elected deputy for the Oise département, he returned to France, and succeeded to the fauteuil of the comte Montalembert in the Académie française.

Mary Louise Booth

During the entire war she maintained a correspondence with Cochin, Gasparin, Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, and other European sympathizers with the Union.

Pope Pius IX and France

When Pius IX assumed the papacy in 1846, French Catholics were divided into a liberal fraction under Charles Forbes René de Montalembert and a conservative fraction under Louis Veuillot.


Liberal Catholicism

The movement of Liberal Catholicism was initiated in France by Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais with the support of Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert and Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, Bishop of Perpignan, while a parallel movement arose in Belgium, led by François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux, Archbishop of Mechelen, and his vicar general Engelbert Sterckx.


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