Abbé Guy-Toussaint-Julien Carron (1760–1821) was a French
Roman Catholic
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priest
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who founded a number of social and educational institutions, especially while in exile in
England
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, and was a prolific author of pious tracts.
Life
Born in
Rennes
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, Carron received was tonsured at the age of thirteen. In 1785, having been profoundly affectedby the poverty throughout his province, he conceived the idea of erecting an institution of charity, for which he interested a number of noble families, who contributed large sums to the execution of his plan; so that in 1791 in the city of Rennes, he came into possession of cotton spinning mills, weaving establishments, etc., which occupied more than two thousand working people of both sexes, under his direction.
[''The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature''. (James Strong and John McClintock, ed.); Harper and Brothers; NY; 1880]
/ref> He also founded an institution for young women trying to escape a life of prostitution
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. However, in 1790, following the French Revolution, he became a ''non-juror'', refusing to swear to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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, and was imprisoned
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.[Bouillet & Chassang (1878)]
In 1792, he was deported
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to Jersey
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where he founded school
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s, libraries
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and pharmacies
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for fellow French Catholics who had fled the Revolution. He resettled in Somers Town, London
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and established many educational and social institutions to support his community,[Walford (1878)] winning the personal thanks of Louis XVIII
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.charity
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* Charitable organization or charity, a non-profit organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being of persons
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founded for children whose families had lost their fortunes during the Revolution.[
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References
Bibliography
By Carron
*Carron, G.-T.-J. (1816) ''Les Écoliers vertueux, ou Vies édifiantes de plusieurs jeunes gens proposés pour modèles'', Lille Vanackere
*— (1820a) ''Les Confesseurs de la foi dans l'Église gallicane à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, ouvrage rédigé sur des mémoires authentiques''
*— (1820b) ''Le modèle des prêtres, ou vie de J. Brydayne, missionnaire'', Rusand
*— (1822) ''Nouveaux Justes dans les conditions ordinaires de la Société, ou vies de Mlle Victoire Conen de Saint-Luc, décapitée en 1794; du Comte Jean-Baptiste-Ignace-Isidore de Forbin, décédé en 1814; de Mlles Françoise-Marie-Thérèse d'Argent, décédée en 1813; Marie-Amélie Sauvage, en 1817; Céleste-Marie-Claire Mettrie Offray, en 1817; Adélaïde-Marie de Cié, en 1818'', Lyon: Rusand
*— (1823) ''Modèles du clergé, ou Vies édifiantes de Messieurs Frétat de Sabra, évêque de Nantes ; Boursoul, prêtre, gardien de l'Hôpital Saint-Yves de Rennes ; Beurier, prêtre de la Congrégation des Eudistes ; Morel de La Motte, chanoine de l'Eglise de Rennes''
*— (1827) ''Vies des justes dans les plus hauts rangs de la société'', Lyon: Rusand
About Carron
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*, "Somers Town and Euston Square", date accessed: 29 Jul 2007
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1760 births
1821 deaths
19th-century French Roman Catholic priests
French religious writers
People of the French Revolution
People from Somers Town, London
French male non-fiction writers
18th-century French Roman Catholic priests