Lamennais denounced religious indifference by the state and toleration while advocating for a restoration of the pre-Revolutionary authority of the Catholic Church.

In 1863 he invited 100 theologians to meet at Mechelen and discuss the question which the liberals Lamennais and Lacordaire had raised in France, namely, the attitude that should be assumed by the Roman Catholic Church towards modern ideas.

She was a Russian convert to Catholicism who had a famous salon in Paris which Montalembert, the Earl of Falloux, and the Reverend Father Félix Lamennais also frequented.

Lamennais devoted most of the following year to translating Louis de Blois's Speculum Monachorum into French, which he published in 1809 under the title.

Lamennais founded L ' Avenir, the first issue of which appeared on October 16, 1830, with the motto " God and Liberty.

Lacordaire and Montalembert departed immediately, but Lamennais stayed on until Gregory's letter to the Polish bishops, which denounced the Polish revolution against the Tsar, dashed his last hopes.

While staying in Munich, Lamennais received the 1832 encyclical Mirari vos, which condemned religious pluralism in general and certain of Lamennais's ideas advanced in L ' Avenir without mentioning his name.

Lamennais was increasingly abandoned by his friends and in 1837 published, in which he provideded his perspective on his relations with Gregory XVI.

He was educated for the church at a religious seminary at Toulouse, and then at the Collège Stanislas, Paris, after which he entered the society at La Chesnaye in Brittany, founded by Lamennais.

These books do not display the apocalyptic style which, partly borrowed from Lamennais, characterizes Michelet's later works, but they contain in miniature almost the whole of his curious ethicopolitico-theological creed — a mixture of sentimentalism, communism, and anti-sacerdotalism, supported by the most eccentric arguments, but urged with a great deal of eloquence.

In connection with the controversy raised by the signing of the reactionary concordat of 1817, he published in 1818 a treatise entitled Les vrais principes de l ' Église gallicane sur la puissance ecclésiastique, which though unfavourably criticized by Lamennais, was received with favor by the civil and ecclesiastical authorities.

Bonald was one of the leading writers of the theocratic or traditionalist school, which included de Maistre, Lamennais, Ballanche and baron Ferdinand d ' Eckstein.

Lamennais founded the newspaper, the first issue of which appeared on 16 October 1830, with the motto " God and Liberty ".

Lamennais soon distanced himself from the Catholic Church, which was a blow to the credibility of the Liberal Catholic movement, and the other two moderated their tone, but still campaigned for liberty of religious education and liberty of association.

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum was incorrectly seen to have legitimised the Social Catholic movement, which in France could be traced back to Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais ' efforts under the July Monarchy.

Lamennais sympathized with the Revolution of 1848 and was elected a deputy for Paris to the Constituent Assembly.

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At an early age he was intended for the priesthood, and placed under the care of the brothers Lamennais, but his strong desire to become a painter finally triumphed over family opposition, and in 1840 he left Plouha for Paris — his sole resources being a pension of five hundred francs, granted him for one year only by the municipality of his native town.

In 1834 he also challenged Lamennais, who rather than accept what he saw as Rome's reactionary absolutism, publicly renounced his priesthood and published “ Les Paroles d ’ un Croyant ” ( Words of a Believer ,) a vociferous republican polemic against the established social order, denouncing what he now saw as the conspiracy of kings and priests against the people.

In conformity with the work of the Christian radical Felicité de Lamennais, Weitling urged installing communism by physical force with the help of a 40, 000-strong army of ex-convicts.

Lamennais lost his mother at the age of five and as a result, he and his brother Jean-Marie were sent for education to an uncle, Robert des Saudrais at La Chênaie, an estate near Saint-Malo.

Lamennais also published works of piety, for example, a widely-read French version of The Imitation of Christ with notes and reflections ( 1824 ),,, and ( 1828 ).

The most prominent name identified with this new style of preaching was that of the Dominican Lacordaire, who, for a time, with Montalembert, was associate editor with de Lamennais of " L ' Avenir ".

Other important encyclicals were Mirari Vos, on liberalism and religious indifferentism ( issued on 15 August 1832 ), Quo Graviora, on the Pragmatic Constitution in the Rhineland ( issued on 4 October 1833 ), and Singulari Nos, on the errors of Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais ( issued on 25 June 1834 ).

It was with continuing doubts that, under the influence of Lamennais, he joined the new religious order in the autumn of 1832 ; and when, in September of the next year, Lamennais, who had come under the displeasure of Rome, severed his connection with the society, Maurice de Guérin soon followed his example.

On the fall of Napoleon and the Bourbons, the work of Lamennais, of " L ' Avenir " and other publications devoted to Roman ideas, the influence of Dom Guéranger, and the effects of religious teaching ever increasingly deprived it of its partisans.

The poetry of the austere Herculano has a religious or patriotic motive and is reminiscent of Lamennais.

Despite meeting with influential politicians such as Lamartine and Lamennais, the France of Louis-Philippe also remained neutral.

Doellinger also entered into relations with the well-known French Liberal Catholic Lamennais, whose views on the reconciliation of the Roman Catholic Church with the principles of modern society ( liberalism ) and the French Revolution had aroused much suspicion in Ultramontane, mainly Jesuit-dominated, circles.

He had eagerly entered into the plans of his friends, Lamennais and Lacordaire, and he collaborated with them in the newspaper, L ' Avenir.

He severed his connection with Père Hyacinthe Loyson as he had with Lamennais and made the submission expected of him to the council.

There he discovered the ultramontane theories of Bonald, de Maistre, and Félicité de Lamennais.

He had long resisted the views of Father Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, " Felix ", one of the leading intellectuals concerned with French Catholic youth, but in May 1830, Lamennais converted him to his liberal version of ultramontanism, that is, the adherence to the absolute universal authority of the papacy in opposition to nationalist and secularist ideas.

He, Lamennais, Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, and the young Viscount Charles de Montalembert, who became one of his closest friends, allied themselves with the July Revolution.

The virulence of “ L ’ Avenir ,” and particularly of Lamennais and Lacordaire, provoked the French Bishops to form a tribunal against the editors of the periodical.

Lamennais and Lacordaire spent January 1831 before the court, and obtained a triumphal acquittal.

On the 30 December Lacordaire, Lamennais and Montalembert, the “ Pilgrims of Freedom ,” went to Rome so as to seek the recourse of Pope Gregory XVI, to whom they presented a dissertation composed by Lacordaire.

He condemned the pride of Lamennais and charged him with Protestantism, accusing him of having wanted to place the authority of the human race above that of the Church.

*" Considérations sur le système philosophique de M. de Lamennais "

Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais ( June 19, 1782-February 27, 1854 ), was a French priest, philosopher, and political theorist.

Félicité de Lamennais was born at Saint-Malo on June 19, 1782, the son of a wealthy merchant.

In 1811 Lamennais received the tonsure and became professor of mathematics in an ecclesiastical college founded by his brother at Saint-Malo.

Lamennais visited Rome at the pope's request.

However, when Villèle became the chief supporter of absolute monarchy, Lamennais withdrew his support and started two rival organs, and.