Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie
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de Broglie |Jacques-Victor-Albert, Duc de Broglie→| Abbé,
professor of apologetics at the Institut Catholique at Paris,
and writer on apologetic subjects, b. at Auteuil, 18 May, 1834;
d. 11 May, 1895. He was the son of Achille-Victor, Duc de
Broglie, and his wife, Albertine de Staël, a Protestant and the
daughter of Madame de Staël. After the death of the mother, who
died young, he was brought up by the Baroness Auguste de Staël,
née Vernet; this aunt, although also a Protestant, exerted
herself "to make a large-minded Christian of him in the Church
to which she did not belong" (Monseigneur d'Hulst in "Le
Correspondant", 25 May, 1895). Entering the Navy young, Broglie
was appointed Ensign in 1857 and soon after Lieutenant. While
thus occupied he felt himself called to the ecclesiastical
state. After taking the preparatory studies he was ordained
priest, 18 October, 1870. In his numero