Frédéric Ozanam (1813-1853)
Collection Cerf Histoire
224 pages - sept. 2006
47,30€
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Holder of the chair of foreign literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Frédéric Ozanam (1813 – 1853) was a brilliant academic whose erudition and eloquence captivated his auditors. Aware of the outstanding challenges of his times from an early age, he decided to take action and, confronted with the misery of the working classes, beseeched young Christians to intervene as mediators between ‘the power of gold’ and ‘the force of despair’. His leading role in founding the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, when he was only twenty-one, was his response to this burning issue. He worked at reconciling religion and freedom, notably by founding the newspaper ‘L’Ere nouvelle’ with Lacordaire; he strove to reconcile science and faith in his everyday duties as a researcher and teacher, and maintained, in the context of quarrels about freedom within teaching, the difficult equilibrium of being ‘both of the Church and the University’. These were the causes to which Frédéric Ozanam was committed, and this radiant personality, of whom Ernest Renan said: ‘Ozanam, how we love him!’, still speaks to our contemporaries. This volume regroups the papers presented on the March 26, 2003 at a colloquium organised to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death by the Bibliothèque national de France, which had just received the entire collection of his papers.
- Dimensions : 145x235x17
- ISBN : 9782204080613
- Poids : 355 grammes
Avec la collaboration de : Agnès Walch, Annie Angremy, Bernard Barbiche, Charles Mercier, Christine Franconnet, Gérard Cholvy, Jacques-Olivier Boudon, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée, Pierre Brunel, Raphaëlle Chevalier-Montariol, René Rémond, Sylvain Milbach