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...linchpin truth proclaimed by the Christian Gospels-"the central fact of all history," as 17th century Bishop Jacques Bossuet put it-is that Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, that he died on the cross, was buried, and on the third day rose from the dead...
Hope & Despair. For 300 years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other. That dialogue animated the 27-year correspondence between Poet-Diplomat Paul Claudel, an unswerving Catholic who never doubted God, and André Gide. the backslid Protestant who never doubted the individual-a controversy generally conducted in scrupulously courteous and self-Centered letters, but frequently so agitated that one or the other broke off the correspondence. They ended by not speaking to each other...
Actually, of course, it never works out quite that way. But when luck is with him, Handicapper Campbell has had some spectacular moments. The biggest: in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct in 1944, when he put 127 pounds on Bossuet, 118 on Wait-a-Bit, 115 on Brownie, saw them finish in a triple dead heat, the first in U.S. handicap racing history...
...have known Saint Exupery at two schools, namely St. Jean, Fribourg, Switzerland and Bossuet, Paris, from 1915 to 1919, also knew him in Strasbourg when he was in the air force. He prepared at Bossuet School for the "Borda," French Annapolis, flunked, was too old to try again. Chose the air force when conscripted, took his pilot's license with a civilian firm; the French Government only training for pilots its enlisted...
...glad to help Assumption, give the degree, share the day's festivities.* Assumption College is perhaps the tiniest and purest center of classicism in the U. S. Here are taught the Greek of Homer, Plato, Sophocles; the Latin of Virgil, Horace, Augustine; the French of Racine and Bossuet; the English of Shakespeare. For those who wish there is law, medicine. Although not stressed, science and modern languages are not ignored. Many Assumption graduates go to Harvard Law School or to Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Although Assumption is a classical college, its regular instructors are all Catholic priests and Assumptionist...