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Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒɑ̃ batist ɡʁeɡwaʁ]; 4 December 1750 – 28 May 1831), often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire, was a French Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent slavery abolitionist and supporter of universal suffrage.
Mar 28, 2005 · An icon of anti-racism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights.
- Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Aug 19, 2021 · I knew that biography seemed passé to many scholars, however, and I wasn’t sure how a study of Grégoire, a famous white French priest, would offer new insight into the questions I wished to study. What did I know of Grégoire at the time? For anyone studying the French Revolution, the abbé was inescapable.
French and eradicating patois; preserving historic buildings and creating public libraries; and convincing non-Western peoples to become Christians. In his later years
Oct 1, 2009 · Aspects of the life and works of Henri Grégoire are quite well known to specialists in the history of the French Revolution, eighteenth-century theology or, more recently, post-colonial literary theory.
- Michael Sonenscher
- 2009
What role would Grégoire play in the French Revolution? What would he do with the ideas he had developed in Lorraine and Alsace, and how would his views change?
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