1 Three highly regarded theologians of recent French history. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), Bishop of

1 Three highly regarded theologians of recent French history. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), Bishop of Meaux and tutor to the Dauphin, was one of the leading religious intellectuals of Louis XIV's court; he engaged in running religious quarrels with the more liberal Fénelon (see note for p. 391, Epigraph). Antoine Arnauld (1612–94), le grand Arnauld, was the leading scholar and defender of Jansenism in France; exiled by Louis XIV, he spent the last years of his life writing pamphlets against Protestantism. Claude Fleury, principal author of the Histoire ecclésiastique (see note for p. 9, Epigraph).