Mgr Claude-Henri PLANTIER par Melchior Doze vers1855

Claude-Henri Plantier (1813–1875) was the Catholic

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from 1855. He was strongly

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and anti-

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He was an important figure in the debates on

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, with

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, leading up to and at

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. Some of his comments brought a reaction from Bismarck. He was also an opponent of

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, publishing a pastoral letter hostile to it in 1863.

Works

*''Règles de la vie sacerdotale'' (1859) *''Pie IX défenseur et vengeur de la vraie civilisation'' (1866) *''Sur les Conciles généraux'' (1869)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Plantier, Claude-Henri 1813 births 1875 deaths 19th-century French Catholic theologians Bishops of Nîmes