A Council of Tours in 813 decided that priests should preach sermons in the rusticam romanam linguam or Vulgar Latin understood by the people, instead of in classical Latin as the common people could no longer understand the latter.
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Came from a banker family, he was member of the municipal council of Tours from 1820 on and president of the Tribunal and Chamber of Commerce of Tours.