The Spread and Impact of Fleury’s Educational Thought

Abstract

François Gaquère, in his general biography of Fleury, and other authors in more specialized works have already attempted to trace, in a limited fashion, at least, the spread and influence of Fleury’s writings on ecclesiastical history, canon and civil law, and French literature.¹ And the picture that has emerged from these studies is that of a competent, disciplined, and very prolific historian-priest-lawyer whose historical and legal scholarship endured well into the second half of the nineteenth century and became, itself, the foundation and inspiration of further historical and legal research.