FREPPEL, CHARLES EMILE French bishop and politician, was born at Oberehnheim (Obernai), Alsace, on June 1, 1827. He was consecrated bishop of Angers in 1870. In 188o he was elected deputy for Brest. Being the only priest in the Chamber of Deputies since the death of Dupanloup, he be came the chief parliamentary champion of the Church. On all ecclesiastical affairs Freppel voted with the Royalist and Catholic party, yet on questions in which French colonial prestige was involved, such as the expedition to Tunis, Tong-King, Madagascar, he supported the government. He died at Angers on Dec. 12, 1891.
Freppel's chief works are: Les Peres apostoliques et lour epoque kr859) ; Les Apologistes chretiens as Ile siècle (2 vols., 1860); Saint Renee et l'eloquence chretienne dans la Gaule aux deux premiers siecles (i861) ; Tertullien (2 vols., 1863) ; Examen critique de la Vie de Jesus de M. Renan (1863) ; Saint Cyprien et l'Eglise d'A f rique (1864) ; Clement d' Alexandrie (1865) ; Origene (2 vols., 1867) .
See E. Cornut, Mgr. Freppel (1893) and A. Pavie, Mgr. Freppel (1906).