VEUILLOT, Louts, French journalist and author, b. in 1813, at Boynes en Gatinais (Loiret). The son of a small cooper, he was sent to a school near Paris, from which he was transferred in 1826 to a lawyer's office. He chose the profession of journalism, and filled several engagements on the provincial press, in the course of which his personali ties involved him in various duels. He visited Rome ,in 1838, previous to which, he states, lie was without much faith, either religious or political. He returned to Paris, however, a zealous adherent of the papacy, and, as editor of the Univers, soon signalized himself as an aggressive and uncompromising champion of the church. In 1842 ho accompanied marshal Bugeaud to Africa as his secretary, and on his return was made chief secretary to the ministry of the interior. He again edited the Unevers in 1848; but his polemical disquisitions brought upon him the censure of the archbishop of Paris; and in 1853 the clergy of the diocese of Orleans were expressly forbidden by their bish op to read the Univers, which, after the usual three warnings, was suppressed by the French government iu 1861. It was afterward replaced by the Monde, in which Veuil
lot discussed religious mutters in a more temperate spirit. In 1862, he published a pamphlet, under the title of Parfum de Rome, which was principally devoted to heaping coals of fire on the head of Cavour, and assailing the abbe Passaglia with the bitterest objurgations. He prays, for instance, that "his robe may' become a robe of fire," and that Heaven " may refuse him a single tear to temper its burning." In 1867, the Uni vers was revived. Veuillot, besides polemical pieces, has written novels, hymns, and a collection of articles under the title of Melanges Religieux, Historigues, et Litteraires (1857). One of the most brilliant of his productions is Les Odeurs de Paris (1866). In 1868, a collection of extracts from his writings was published by the abbe Charbonnell.