Faure, Jean-Baptiste (Abbé Faure)
M. l'Abbé Jean-Baptiste Faure (November 11, 1833 - 189?) was a French catholic clergyman. Born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Faure attended school in Clermont-Ferrand before joining the clergy. He was the curate at Saint-Etienne-du-Mont in Paris near the Panthéon during the 1871 Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune. On January 25, 1885, Abbé Faure became the curate at La Grande Roquette, then the prison that was the location of executions by guillotine in Paris. During his 6 years ministering to the prisoners at La Grande Roquette, Abbé Faure witnessed 20 executions. He published a memoir about his time working in La Grande Roquette entitled Au Pied de l'Echafaud: Souvenirs de La Roquette.
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French Catholicism and the Secular State.
Carte allégorique du Vice et de ses Résultats.
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This is a rare c. 1880 broadside allegorical map of Vice made by the French Catholic curate Abbé Faure. The image reflects the tensions facing French Catholicism, which was undergoing a transformation and gradual decline, caught between the legacy of tradition and the emergence of a secular Republican state. (more details)