Anguste Joseph Alphouse Guatry, abbe, a French theologian, born in Lille, March 30, 1805, died at Montreux, Switzerland, Feb. 0, 1872. In 1841 he was appointed director of the college of Ste. Barbe, Paris, and in 1846 chaplain of the superior normal school. In 1851 a controversy with his colleague, M. Vacherot, led to their resigning their positions. Gratry now founded, in conjunction with the abbe Petetot, a society of priests called " Oratory of the Immaculate Conception," and devoted himself in an especial manner to the conversion and instruction of the Parisian youth. In 1861 he was appointed by Bishop Dupanloup vicar general of Orleans, and in 1803 became professor of moral theology in the Sorbonne. On the publication of his Cours de philosophic (1855-'7) he was hailed as a valuable auxiliary by the ontologists. In 1864 he vehemently attacked Penan and the whole rationalistic school; and in 1807 he was elected a member of the French academy, chiefly, it is thought, in consideration of his three works, Paix, meditations historiques et religieases (1862), Sources, eonseils pour la conduite de l'esprit (2 vols. 8vo, 1801-'2), and Commentaires sur l'evangile de Saint Matthieu (1863). In 1809 his connection with Pere Hyacinthe and the "International League of Peace" drew on him the censure of the superior of the Oratory, from which body he thereupon withdrew.

In 1870 he published two letters on the position of parties in the council of the Vatican, which he retracted in December, 1872, in a letter to the new archbishop of Paris, Guibert. His principal works, besides those above mentioned, are: Philoso-phie du Credo (1801); Jems-Christ, lettres a M. Renan (1864); Les sophistes et la critique (1804); Henri Perreyve (1860); and La morale et la loi de l'histoire (2 vols. 8vo, 1868).