Esprit Fléchier

Valentin Esprit Fléchier ( born June 10, 1632 Pernes- les- Fontaines, Vaucluse, . † February 16, 1710 in Montpellier, Hérault Dépt ) was a renowned French bishop, preacher and writer.

Life

Fléchier, from the county venaissin, was for a time a member of the Jesuit Order. Later he worked as a lecturer in rhetoric at Narbonne in 1659 and went to Paris. There he soon became one of the best pulpit orator and was also much appreciated by the Hôtel de Rambouillet, the literary salon of the Marquise de Rambouillet.

1673, the same year as Jean Racine, Fléchier was taken as the successor of the writer Antoine Godeau to the Académie française ( fauteuil 10). King Louis XIV appointed Fléchier 1685 as Bishop of Lavaur, and two years took over this the episcopal throne of Nîmes. There Fléchier founded a small scientific academy and ran it for several years.

At the age of 77 years died Esprit Fléchier on 16 February 1710 in Montpellier.

Works (selection)

• History of Kayser Theodosius the Great ( "Histoire de Théodose le Grand, pour Monseigneur le Dauphin "). Publisher Horn, Leipzig 1765th
• Life of the famous Cardinal Francis Ximenez Cisneros ( " Histoire du cardinal Ximenes "). Publisher Ettlinger, Würzburg 1828 ( 2 vols ).
• Sermons and praise sermons of various saints and the more most HH. Order - founders ( " Panégyriques et autres sermons" ). Well Verlag, Konstanz 1712/13 ( 2 vols ).
• Oraison funèbres. Paris 1878.