1. Louis-Ernest Dubois was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris.
22 Facts About Louis-Ernest Dubois
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Louis-Ernest Dubois played a leading role in the period of adjustment to the separation of Church and State in France.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois was born in Saint-Calais, the second of six children of Louis Dubois, a nailmaker, and his wife, Henriette-Felicite Derouineau.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois was educated at the College Ecclesiastique de Notre Dame in Saint Calais and at the seminary of Le Mans.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois witnessed the invasion of his hometown by the Prussian army during the Franco-Prussian War.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois was editor of Semaine du fidele in 1888.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois served as Vicar general of the diocese of Le Mans from 1898 until 1901.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois was promoted to Archbishop of Bourges in 1909, where he actively participated in helping soldiers and their families during the First World War.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois served in Bourges until he was transferred to Archbishop of Rouen on 13 March 1916.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Aquiro in the consistory of December 4,1916.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois headed a French government religious mission to Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Smyrna, Athens, Constantinople and the Balkan countries from December 14,1919 to March 24,1920, to assure those areas of France's religious impartiality.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois was transferred to become Archbishop of Paris on 13 December 1920.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois took part in the 1922 papal conclave that elected Pope Pius XI.
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In 1923, Louis-Ernest Dubois named the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre guardians of the Crown of thorns, a relic acquired by Louis IX of France.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois traveled to the United States of America and Canada in June 1927.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois played a conciliatory role in relations with French authorities.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois established an ordinariate to co-ordinate, thereby increasing French clerical control of the work of foreign language Catholic chaplaincies in Paris.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois published several works on art history and archeology.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois was made a commander of the Legion d'honneur May 27,1926.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois remained Archbishop of Paris until his death in 1929 at the clinic of the Freres de Saint-Jean de Dieu, Paris.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois is buried in the crypt of Notre-Dame de Paris.
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Louis-Ernest Dubois's monument, sculpted in marble in 1929, is the work of sculptor Henri Bouchard, and is located in the southeast corner of the ambulatory.