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Eugène Veuillot
Eugène Veuillot (October 5, 1818 – September 18, 1905) was a French journalist who, alongside his brother Louis Veuillot, Louis and later with his sons François Veuillot, François and Pierre Veuillot (1859-1907), Pierre, directed the Catholic-oriented newspaper ''L'Univers (newspaper), L'Univers''. Biography Eugène Veuillot was the brother of French journalist and writer Louis Veuillot, who was deeply committed to the fight for freedom of education and the founder of the Catholic newspaper ''L'Univers (newspaper), L'Univers''. Both brothers were shareholders of Union Générale, a Catholic bank whose spectacular collapse after extensive financial and industrial investments in France and abroad triggered the 1882 stock market crash, one of the 19th century's largest economic crises in France. Twenty years earlier, they had also participated in the ventures of André Langrand-Dumonceau, a Belgian banker whose family sought to create a powerful Catholic financial institution.K ...
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Louis Veuillot
Louis Veuillot (11 October 1813 – 7 March 1883) was a French journalist and author who helped to popularize ultramontanism (a philosophy favoring Papal supremacy). Career overview Veuillot was born of humble parents in Boynes (Loiret). When he was five years of age, his parents relocated to Paris. 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. Initially, Veuillot supported the July Monarchy of Louis Phillippe criticizing both Republicans and supporters of the deposed Bourbon Dynasty. He returned to Paris in 1837, and a year later visited Rome during Holy Week. There he embraced ultramontane sentiments, and became an ardent champion of Catholicism. The results of his conversion were published in ''Pélerinages en Suisse'' (1839), ''Rome et Lorette'' (1841) and other publications. Veuillot's embrace of Ultramontanism led to his violent rejection of Bourgeois society a ...
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