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. He taught philosophy at

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in 1762, before travelling around Italy, Germany and Poland, developing theories of biblical

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, which contradicted the Encyclopédistes. His work saw him become director of a house of new converts in Paris and Queen

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chose him as her Confessor. On the 2nd September 1792 he was one of the priests, along with his brother Robert Guérin du Rocher killed by a mob in the September Massacres. 134 years later, he and his fellow

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were

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in October 1926''Martyrologium Romanum'', 2004, pp. 492–493

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