Bantain

Bantain, LOUIS EUGÈNE-MARIE, a French philosopher and theologian, born at Paris, February 17, 1796. A pupil of Cousin, he became in 1816 professor of Philosophy in the College of Strasbourg. He took orders in 1828, but was much harassed by charges of heterodoxy discovered in his writings, and at one time was even suspended from his sacred function for some years. In 1848 he was appointed vicar-general of the diocese of Paris, and in 1853 a professor of the Theological Faculty. He died at Paris 18th October 1867. Besides being a very popular preacher, he wrote several philosophical books, among them Psychologie Expérimentale (1839), Philosophie Morale (1842), La Religion et la Liberté (1848), La Morale de l'Évangile (1855), and Philosophie des Lois (1860).