Dupanloup, FÉLIX ANTOINE PHILLIBERT, Bishop of Orleans, was born at St Félix, near Annecy in Savoy, 3d January 1802. He received priest's orders in 1825, and, after acting as tutor to the young Orleans princes, was appointed in 1837 superior of the Little Seminary in Paris. Here he had an opportunity of carrying out still further his favourite views as to education; and he remained fond of teaching even after his appointment as Bishop of Orleans in 1849. During the reign of
Louis-Philippe he strove earnestly in behalf of freedom of education, and to secure tolerance for the Jesuits. The publication of the papal Encyclical and Syllabus in 1864, however, called forth from him La Convention du 15 September et l'Encyclique du 8 Décembre, a pamphlet of which 34 editions had to be issued within a few weeks. In this little book, the eloquent bishop defends the temporal authority of the pope. Nevertheless he received with great reserve the first intimations of the pope's intention to summon a council for the purpose of proclaiming the dogma of papal infallibility; and after his arrival at Rome, to take part in the deliberations of the council, he protested openly against the doctrine; and when he found that all opposition was in vain, he left the Holy City on the evening prior to the promulgation of the decree by the council. Yet, once the dogma was published, he submitted to the will of the church, and signified his acceptance of it. In 1871 the bishop was elected deputy for Orleans to the new National Assembly, the only bishop who sat in it. From this time onwards to the date of his death, at Lacombe, near Lancey (Isère), 11th October 1878, he struggled manfully against the attacks which were being constantly made upon the church both in the Assembly and outside of it. He was nominated a senator in 1876, and from 1854 had been a member of the Institute. Of his numerous writings, it will suffice to mention two on education, his most important works—viz. De l'Education (1850; 10th ed. 1882), De la Haute Education Intellectuelle (3 vols. 1866); and the following: Histoire de Jésus Christ (1869), Histoire de Madame Acarie (1854), Méthode Générale du Catéchisme (1841), and Le Christianisme présenté aux Hommes du Monde (1844). See Life of Monseigneur Dupanloup, by Lagrange, translated by Lady Herbert (Lond. 1885).