Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
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Pierre Paul Royer-Collard was a French statesman and philosopher, leader of the Doctrinaires group during the Bourbon Restoration.
Portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1819
Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante was a French statesman and historian. Associated with the center-left, he was described in France as the first man to call himself, "without any emb
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
…century the word "liberal" was generally synonymous with Voltaireanism and hostility to the Jesuits, certain speeches of Royer-Collard quoted by Barante show that he professed a deferential attachment for the Church. "If Christianity", he wrote, "has been a degradation, a corruption, Voltaire in attacking…
Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante.
Barante in his later years.