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unusual facts about Louis Veuillot


Louis Veuillot

With little education, he gained employment in a lawyer's office, and was sent in 1830 to serve with a newspaper of Rouen, and afterwards to Périgueux.


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.


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Neo-ultramontanism

Its main bastion in these early days was the French journal Univers under the leadership of Louis Veuillot.