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Monseigneur Luc Gillon was a Belgian priest and nuclear scientist. He became the first rector of the Lovanium University (now University of Kinshasa ) in Léopoldville from 1954 to 1967. Gillon played a significant role in the construction of the first nuclear reactor Trico I in Africa, located on the Lovanium campus in 1959.
Jean Cuvelier (1882–1962) [1] was a Belgian Redemptorist missionary and bishop of Matadi in Belgian Congo from 1930 until his death in 1962. Cuvelier was notable for his interest in the history of the Kingdom of Kongo, which he saw as a route to evangelization in his time.
Monseigneur (plural: Messeigneurs or Monseigneurs) is an honorific in the French language, abbreviated Mgr., Msgr. [1] In English use it is a title before the name of a French prelate, a member of a royal family or other dignitary.
Hyacinthe de Gauréault Dumont (or Du Mont), called Dumont (1647 - 16 March 1726) was a French administrator.. First chamber valet of Monseigneur, son of Louis XIV, he was appointed governor of the Château de Meudon from 1706 until his death.
Gerbet was born at Poligny, Jura.He studied at the Académie and the Grand-Séminaire of Besançon, also at St-Sulpice and the Sorbonne.Ordained priest in 1822, he joined Félicité de La Mennais at "La Chesnaie" in 1825 to launch the Society of St Peter (Congrégation de Saint-Pierre), after a few years spent with Antoine de Salinis at the Lycée Henri IV.
He received his classical education at Autun, where his professor of rhetoric was Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra.He studied theology at Dijon and Paris, was ordained priest by Denis Auguste Affre in 1846, was professor of church history at the Seminary of Dijon (1846–51), and then chaplain of the Convent of the Visitation in the same city (1851–61).
"There is a story told," I said, "of Monseigneur Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, who was supposed to be one of the wittiest men of his time. He was at dinner once with a lady who made a peculiar little noise and then proceeded to shuffle with her feet on the parquet so as to cover the indiscretion with similar sounds.
On the occasion of the publication of a work devoted to the Livre des faiz monseigneur saint Loys in 1990, [3] François Avril gave him a conventional name, the “Maître du Cardinal de Bourbon”, about Charles II de Bourbon, archbishop of Lyon and cardinal, who commissioned the work. The French historian located the work in Paris and added ...