Biography of blessed louis josep francois
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Louis-Joseph François
Louis Joseph François was born 3 February 1751 in Busigny, France. He entered the seminary of the Congregation of the Mission with Jean-Jacques Dubois, also of Busigny, on 4 October 1766 when he was fifteen and a half years old. He took vows at age 18. The date of his ordination is unknown.
Following ordination Louis worked in the seminary for 18 years, until 1781. During that year he was superior of the seminary at Troyes. He was appointed Secretary General by the Superior General, Antoine Jacquier, in 1786.
Known as a gifted preacher, he was invited to give important sermons, including the eulogies of Madame de Maintenon, 26 July 1786, and Madame Louise de France, a Carmelite and daughter of Louis XV, 15 April 1788. He also gave retreats for clergy and spoke at the Tuesday Conferences at Saint Lazare.
Following Jean-Félix-Joseph Cayla de la Garde's election as Superior General in 1788, François was sent to Saint Firmin, where there was a seminary and
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Louis Joseph François
Louis-Joseph François was born in 1751 in northern France, the son of a farmer. When he finished his secondary education he joined the Congregation of the Mission. After ordination he worked in seminaries as professor and superior. In 1786, at the end of the 15th General Assembly, he was appointed Secretary General. He became famous as a preacher for special occasions and some of his more important sermons were printed and published. When he spoke at the Tuesday Conferences more than the usual number of priests turned up to hear him. In the summer of 1788 he was appointed superior of the former Collège des Bons Enfants. At this time it was known as Saint-Firmin, after a bishop of Amiens who was the titular of the seminary chapel. The name had been changed earlier in the century as it had been thought that the name Bons Enfants was possibly discouraging boys from entering. François was chosen as being someone who could carry on, and complete, a programme of
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Louis François namn, Prince of Conti
Prince of Conti
Louis François Joseph dem Bourbon or Louis François II, Prince of Conti (French pronunciation:[lwifʁɑ̃swaʒozɛfdəbuʁbɔ̃]; 1 September 1734 – 13 March 1814), was the gods Prince of Conti, scion of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, whose senior branches ruled France until 1848.
Louis was the only child of his parents and lived a secluded childhood at his father's chateau, after the death of his mother in 1736. He later married his first cousin, with the union producing no children. During the French Revolution he stayed in France until 1797 when he was exiled to Spain where he died in 1814, less than a month before his family were restored to the throne of France; with his death the house of Bourbon-Conti became extinct.
Biography
[edit]Born at the Hôtel dem Conti (quai Conti) in Paris, on 1 September 1734, and baptised in the presence of the French king and queen, he succeeded his father, Louis François