title: Claude Plantier
text: # Claude Plantier
  
  Claude-Henri Plantier (1813–1875) was the Catholic Bishop of Nîmes from 1855. He was strongly Ultramontanist and anti-Protestant
  
  He was an important figure in the debates on papal infallibility, with Louis Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, leading up to and at Vatican I. Some of his comments brought a reaction from Bismarck.
  
  He was also an opponent of bullfighting, publishing a pastoral letter hostile to it in 1863.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Règles de la vie sacerdotale (1859)
  * Pie IX défenseur et vengeur de la vraie civilisation (1866)
  * Sur les Conciles généraux (1869)
  