Background
This great educator, was born at Bellegarde-en-Gâtinais (45270 Loiret), France, the 24 of August 1828, dead in the departement of Nord, in 59152 Gruson the 9 of November 1919.
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This great educator, was born at Bellegarde-en-Gâtinais (45270 Loiret), France, the 24 of August 1828, dead in the departement of Nord, in 59152 Gruson the 9 of November 1919.
Monsignor Baunard received the degree of Doctor of Letters, in 1860.
He was one of the clergy of Orléans, until 1877, after which he was attached to the Catholic University of Lille, first as professor, and later as rector. Number Catholic university profited more by the Law of 1875 that granted freedom of higher education. In the two theses which he wrote he treated of the pedagogy of Plato and of Theodulphus, Bishop of Orléans in the time of Charlemagne.
Both works which marked the beginning of a literary activity surpassed by few.
As hagiographer he wrote on Saint John the Apostle (1869) and Saint Ambrose (1871). The French religious history of the nineteenth century was summarized by him in "un siècle de l"Eglise de France" (1901).
He contributed notable works of religious psychology in his celebrated books, "Le doute et ses victimes" (1865), and "Louisiana foi et ses victoires" (1881-1883). His "Espérance" (1892) throws much light on the beginnings of the contemporary religious revival among intelligent Frenchmen at the end of the nineteenth century.
His "L"évangile du pauvre" (1905) appeared opportunely during a period of social unrest.