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| occupation = Journalist, writer | signature = | period = }} Louis Veuillot (October 11, 1813 – March 7, 1883) was a French journalist and author who helped to popularize ultramontanism (a philosophy favoring Papal supremacy). ==Career overview== Veuillot was born of humble parents in Boynes (Loiret). When he was five years of age, his parents relocated to Paris. With little education, he gained employment in a lawyer's office, and was sent in 1830 to serve with a newspaper of Rouen, and afterwards to Périgueux. He returned to Paris in 1837, and a year later visited Rome during Holy Week. There he embraced ultramontane sentiments, and became an ardent champion of Catholicism. The results of his conversion were published in ''Pélerinages en Suisse'' (1839), ''Rome et Lorette'' (1841) and other publications. In 1843, Veuillot joined the staff of the newspaper ''Univers Religieux'', a journal created in 1833 by Abbé Migne, and soon helped make it the leading organ of ultramontane propaganda as ''L'Univers''. His methods of journalism, which made great use of irony and ad hominem criticism,〔"In Paris M. Louis Veuillot has given us another shameful specimen of Ultramontanism. Not satisfied with comparing savants to the phylloxera, he likens Protestantism to a loathsome disease whose name is usually confined to medical works." — ("The Jesuits in France," ) ''The New York Times'', August 16, 1875, p. 4.〕 had already provoked more than one duel, and he was imprisoned for a brief time for his polemics against the University of Paris. In 1848, he became editor of the newspaper, which was suppressed in 1860,〔("The Greater Excommunication, The Emperor and the Pope," ) ''The New York Times'', April 20, 1860.〕 but revived in 1867, when Veuillot resumed his ultramontane propaganda, causing a second suppression of his journal in 1874.〔("The Clerical Press and Marshall Serrano," ) ''The New York Times'', September 24, 1874.〕 Veuillot then occupied himself by writing polemical pamphlets〔"An impetuous, brutal journalist, whose ''verve'' and ardour came from Rabelais and Voltaire through Joseph de Maistre, Louis Veuillot was at the same time an exquisite writer and a violent Christian; he distributed holy water as though it were vitriol and handled the crucifix like a club." — Hanotaux, Gabriel (1905). (''Contemporary France.'' ) London: Archibald Constable & Co., p. 622.〕 against moderate Catholics, the Second French Empire and the Italian government. His services to the papal see were recognized by Pope Pius IX, on whom he wrote (1878) a monograph. Matthew Arnold said of him: M. Louis Veuillot is a polemic worthy of the golden age of polemics. He is singly devoted to ultramontanism; he lives on a small fixed salary from the proprietors of the ''Univers;'' he is a man of the purest and simplest domestic life; he is poor, and has a large family, but he has refused all offers of place and salary from the government, and maintains his entire independence.〔Arnold, Matthew (1960). "England and the Italian Question." In: ''On the Classical Tradition'', R. H. Super (Ed.), University of Michigan Press, p. 89.〕 Some of his papers were collected in ''Mélanges Religieux, Historiques et Littéraires'' (12 vols., 1857–1875), and his ''フランス語:Correspondance'' (7 vols., 1883–85) has great political interest. His younger brother, Eugène Veuillot, published (1901–1904) a comprehensive and valuable life, ''Louis Veuillot''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Veuillot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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