Claude Plantier

Claude-Henri Plantier (1813–1875) was the Catholic Bishop of Nîmes from 1855.

He was strongly Ultramontanist and anti-Protestant[1] He was an important figure in the debates on papal infallibility, with Louis Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, leading up to and at Vatican I.

Some of his comments brought a reaction from Bismarck.

He was also an opponent of bullfighting, publishing a pastoral letter hostile to it in 1863.

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