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The Douai Bible is the English translation of the Bible used among English-speaking Roman Catholics, and executed by divines connected with the English College at Douai. The New Testament was published in 1582 at Rheims, the Old in 1609-10 at Douai, the translation being based on the Vulgate. Various revisions have since materially altered it.
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Charles Alexandre de Calonne was a French statesman. He was born in 1734 at Douai and died in 1802. He studied at Paris, and
devoted himself to the duties of an advocate. In 1783 he succeeded Maurepas as minister of finance; but after four years of incessant endeavours at financial reform he could do nothing but advise an assembly of the notables, which accordingly met in 1787. The financial statement which he then made led to his dismissal, and he retired to England. On the breaking out of the revolution he supported the royalist party with much zeal.
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William Allen was an English Cardinal. He was born in 1532 at Rossall and died in 1594. As a Catholic he was forced to leave England in 1561 and 1565. In 1568 he founded the English college at Douai to train missionary priests for the re-conversion of England to Catholicism, and later founded similar establishments at Valladolid and Rome.
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Douai is a town in northern France notable for the number and variety of its educational establishments.
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