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JACQUES PAUL MIGNE (1800-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 426 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JACQUES

PAUL MIGNE (1800-1875)  , French priest and publisher, was born at St
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Flour,
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Cantal, on the 25th of
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October 1800 . He studied
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theology at Orleans, was ordained priest in 1824 and placed in charge of the parish of Puiseaux, in the diocese of Orleans . In 1833 he went to Paris, and started L'Univers religieux, which afterwards became Louis Veuillot's ultra-montane
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organ . On severing his connexion with the paper three years later, he opened at Petit Montrouge, near Paris, the
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great
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publishing house which brought out in rapid succession numerous religious
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works at popular prices . The best known of these are: Scripturae sacrae cursus completus, and Theologiae cursus (each in 28 vols., 184o–1845); Collection
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des auteurs sacres (roo vols., 1846–1848); Encyclopedie theologique (171 vols., 1844–1866); Patrologiae cursus completus, Latin series in 221 vols . (1844–1855; 2nd edition, 1878 seq.); Greek series, first published in Latin (85 vols., 1856–1861); with Greek text and Latin
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translation (165 vols., 1857–1866) . Unfortunately these
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editions, brought out in great haste and often edited by superficial scholars, do not come up to the requirements of moderncriticism . By far the most noteworthy is the Patrology, which was superintended by the learned
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Benedictine J . B . Pitra . Its vast scope leaves it still unique and valuable, where other editions of
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special works do not exist . The indices in 3 vols. are arranged so that one may easily find any reference in the patristic writings .

In

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February 1868 a great fire destroyed the whole of Migne's printing premises, but he established a new house in Paris, which was
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purchased in 1876 by the publishers Garnier Freres, who still own all the works brought out by Migl e . He died in Paris on the 25th of October 1875 . For a more
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complete account of Migne's
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life, see the article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (New York, 1906 seq.) .

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