abbé

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Morse got most of this story from a book written by a Scottish academic named John Robison, who in turn took many of his ideas from the abbé de Barruel, a French priest.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2022

He even took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865, becoming an abbé but appropriately stopping short of the vow of chastity.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2011

This smoothness has perhaps a slight tinge of the priestly—for, as Renan first studied for the priesthood, so Dupont-Sommer was once an abbé.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

She asked if they had not met a fat abbé, an enormous bailiff, and a young booby, galloping as fast as they could to Paris.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

He wished to rest in his own churchyard, and let the abbé Gaultier and the curé de St. Sulpice squabble as to who should have, the honor of his conversion.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)