Author. He received recognition as a 19th century French journalist and author. His writings helped popularize a philosophy favoring Papal supremacy, ultramontanism, in Italy during the 19th century. Born into poverty, his family relocated to Paris when he was a child. He had little formal education but had on-the-job education in a lawyer's office, following with working for two newspapers. He spent every free moment reading history and literature and befriending poets and other scholars. In 1838, he traveled to Rome for Holy Week and embraced the Catholic faith. His practice of ultramontanism began shortly after returning to France. In 1840 he accepted a position at the newspaper, "Univers Religieux," writing articles using irony and sharp criticism. On July 28, 1858, as journalist for the Univers newspaper, he interrogated Bernadette Soubirous, or Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, about the apparitions of the Holy Virgin Mary, during a press conference in the rectory of Lourdes. He wrote: "Bernadette is intelligent but not astute. She is ignorant, but is better than me." For his thinking, he was in more than one duel and in 1844 imprisoned for a short-time for statements against the University of Paris. Since he defended his religion with such a great violence, he was no longer friends of well-respected bishops. He was a virulent anti-Semite and putting this thought in his articles. Continuing the crusade, he became the editor of a newspaper from 1848 to 1860 and resuming in 1867. He was against Napoleon, who wanted to rule over the Catholic church. Besides countless works as a journalist, he wrote also romances and poems, all inspired by a love of religious faith. He married and the couple had two daughters. His work as a journalist is comprised in 12 volumes entitled, "Mélanges religieux, historiques, politiques et littéraires". He wrote a total of 58 books and a few translated to English. His brother, Eugene Veuillot, wrote his three-volume biography. His final resting place is Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France, yet at in Rome, Italy at the Sant'Andrea delle Fratteh in the Chapel of St Francis de Sales at the tomb of Cardinal Pier Luigi Carafa there is a cenotaph memorial to him. Some sources, in error, state he is actually buried here.