Claude Hippolyte; Clausel (Demonstats)
Claude Hippolyte; Clausel (Demonstats) [1]
Clausel (Demonstats), Claude Hippolyte;
a French prelate, brother of the following; was born April 5, 1769, at Roilergue (Aveyron). He studied at St. Sulpice, and after undergoing many vicissitudes during the revolution and the restoration, was in 1819 appointed almoner to the duchess of Angouleme, and in, the year following preached the funeral sermon of then duke of Berry. In 1824 he was promoted to the bishopric of Chartres, which he resigned in 1851. He died in 1857. He was an enthusiastic defender of Gallicanism. Of his works we mention, Le Concordat Justile (Paris, 1818) :-Coup sun l'Eglise de France: — La Religion Prouvee par la Revolution, etc. See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Hoefer; Nouv. Biog (s.v.) (B. P.)
