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

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February 1868 a great See also:fire destroyed the whole of See also:Migne's See also:printing premises, but he established a new house in Paris, which was See also:purchased in 1876 by the publishers See also: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 See also:complete See also:account of Migne's See also:life, see the See also:article in the See also:Catholic Encyclopedia (New See also:York, 1906 seq.) .

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