VEUILLOT, Loris (1813-83). A French ultramontane publicist and author, born at Bovines (Loiret). Entirely self-educated. he began his literary career as a contributor to journals supporting the government. edited from 1831 the Echo de Bourn and from 1S37 in Paris the Charte de MO and afterwards La. Pala. After a visit to Rome in 1836 he had become the most uncompromising representative of ultra montanism in France and as contributor to (since 1843) and editor of (since 18481 its chief organ, the Unirers Religieux, upheld with great talent and reckless energy the claims of the papacy to unrestricted dominion over Church and State. His violent polemics against the Italian policy of Napoleon 111. in 1560 led to the suppression of the Unirers, which was not al lowed to appear again until 1867. During the Council of the Vatican (1869-70) he succeeded by threats and denunciations in holding at hay the remotest Gallivan manifestations on the part of the French episcopate. ilis political induenee reached its height under the government of the so-called moral ()Eder in 1877. whereafter. con
tined to his room by gout, he only seldom ini• parted his opinions through the medium of the Unirers. Of his numerous publications. in cluding edifying romances and saintly stories, political, historical. and literary essays, and poems, may he mentioned: POrrinages de Suisse (18:3S, 21st ed., 1894), Pierre Satutire (1840), et Lorette, ( 1841 and frequently after), Les Francais en (1845, 10(11 ed., 1SS9), Les tibr(s Ursela re l'indc.r 1s49 purl um de ( 1861, 12th ed., I 890 ) Hi:do/jet/es tt /untaisies ( 1862 ), Les odeurs de Paris ( 1566, 10th ed., 1876), Les eouleurres 1180). a collection of po,.nis, Paris pendu n1 11 s deux sieges I 187 1 I, I'm c pendun I le runci le (1s72) .1Ioliere el Bourthtloue Eludes sur Victor Hugo (1885). A collection of his he published under the title Melanges religicux, histw'iqucs, politiqiws (1857-761. Consult the biographies by his brother Eugene Veitillot (Paris, 1883), and by Cornut (lb., 1891).