Ravignan

Ravignan, GUSTAVE FRANÇOIS XAVIER DELACROIX DE, a celebrated Jesuit preacher, was born at Bayonne, December 2, 1795, was professor at Montrouge, and became famous in 1837 as preacher at Notre Dame in Paris. He died 26th February 1858. He published an Apology of his order in 1844, and in 1854 a more lengthened work with the same view, Clement XIII. et Clement XIV. See memoirs by Poujoulat (1858) and De Ponleroy (1860; Eng. trans. New York, 1873).