Bossuet orateur lyrique chez Lamartine

Lamartine was the 1864 author of a Bossuet who presents an ambivalent picture. On the one hand, Bossuet embodied “the highest form of speech with which nature had endowed the lips of man,” the perfect incarnation of purity of heart in sublime eloquence; but on the other, this prophetic voice that had become superhuman put its lyricism at the service of dogmatism and absolutism, thereby giving rise to as much indignation as admiration.