Traviès de Villers, Charles Joseph, 1804-59, French caricaturist and painter, b. Switzerland. He founded and was a prolific contributor to the popular journal Charivari (1831) and drew for Caricature (1838). His witty burlesques of Parisian life were very popular. He helped to illustrate Balzac's works (1848-55).

Saint Eugene de Mazenod (August 1 1782 - May 21 1861) born Charles Joseph Eugene de Mazenod and more commonly known as Eugene de Mazenod, was a French Catholic clergyman, beatified on 19 October 1975 by Pope Paul VI, and canonized on 3 December 1995 by Pope John Paul II.

Biography

After spending his youth in Italy to get away from the mayhem subsequent to the French Revolution, he returned to France and was made a priest in Amiens in 1811.

In 1816 he founded the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

From 1837 to 1861 he was bishop of Marseille. During his episcopacy he commissioned Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, an ornate Neo-Byzantine basilica on the south side of the old port of Marseille.

References

External links

• Biography in the Catholic Encyclopedia
• Eugene de Mazenod (1782-1861) - biography. Vatican Basilica. Retrieved on 2007-03-09..
• Biography of Eugene de Mazenod at OMI Lacombe