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Prelate and politician, born in Obernai, Bas-Rhin, France. Ordained in 1848, he was made Bishop of Angers (1869) and elected deputy to Brest, Finistère (1880). He was conservative in his politics and set up the Catholic universities. His many works include Oeuvres polémiques, Oratoires (17 vols, 1869–88), and Bossuet et l'éloquence sacré au XVIIe siècle (1894).

Charles-Emile Freppel (June 1, 1827 - December 12, 1891), French bishop and politician, was born at Oberehnheim (Obernai), Alsace.

He was ordained priest in 1849 and for a short time taught history at the seminary of Strassburg, where he had previously received his clerical training.

During the Franco-German war, Freppel organized a body of priests to minister to the French prisoners in Germany, and penned an eloquent protest to the emperor William I.

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 (1881, 1883-85), he supported the government of the day.

Freppel's historical and theological works form 30 vols, the best known of which are:

Les Pères apostoliques et leur époque (1859) Les Apologistes chrêtiens au 11' siècle (2 vols, 1860) Saint Iréne et l'éloquence chrêtienne dans la Gaule aux deux prèmiers siècles (1861) Tertullien (2 vols, 1863) Saint Cyprien et l'Eglise d'Afrique (1864) Clement d'Alexandrie (1865) Origène (2 vols, 1867)

There are interesting lives by E Cornut (Paris, 1893) and F Charpentier (Angers, 1904).