Henri Unis Charles Maret, a French theolo-cnan, born at Meyrueis, Lozere. April 20 1805 He was ordained in 1830, appointed to charge in Pans in 1832, and in 1839 published Essai sur, le pantheisme socistes moderns. which brought him prominently before the public. In 1840 he was appointed professor of dogmatic theology in the Sorbonne, and honorary canon of Notre Dame. In 1844 he published the result of his lectures at the Sorbonne under the title of Theodicee chretienne, which was a parallel between the Christian and the rationalistic notion of God. In 1849 he was appointed vicar general of Paris, and in 1853 dean of the faculty of theology. His Philosophic et religion (1856) has been translated into several languages. He was in 1860 nominated by the government bishop of Vannes, but on account of his Galliean opinions he was not continued by the pope; and in 1861 he was consecrated bishop of Sura in partialis injidelium, and appointed by the emperor a member of the imperial chapter of St. Denis. In 1869, before the opening of the Vatican council, he published Du cone He general et de lapaix religieuse (2 vols. 8vo), which was translated into German and Italian. This work was assailed by the Uniters, as well as by Archbishop Manning, to whose arguments Bishop Maret replied in Li pape et Its eveques.

At the council he voted with the opposition; but in September. 1871. he wrote to the pope to express his acceptance of the decree of infallibility, and his regret for everything which he had written against it. His other principal works are: LEglise et la societe la'ique (1845), and L' Anti-christianisme (1864). When La-cordaire in 1848 founded LEre Nourelle, he placed it under the direction of M. Maret.