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FRANCOIS DE PARIS (169o-1727)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 804 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS DE See also:PARIS (169o-1727)  , See also:French theologian, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 3rd of See also:June 169o . He zealously opposed the See also:bull Unigenitus (1713), which condemned P . See also:Quesnel's annotated See also:translation of the See also:Bible . He gave further support to the Jansenists, and when he died (May 1, 1727) his See also:grave in the See also:cemetery of St Medard became a See also:place of fanatical See also:pilgrimage and wonder-working . The See also:king ordered the See also:churchyard to be dosed in 1732, but See also:earth which had been taken from the grave proved equally efficacious and helped to encourage the disorder which marked the See also:close of the Jansenist struggle (see See also:JANSENISM) . Lives by B. de la Bruyere and B . See also:Doyen (1731) . See also P . F . Matthieu, Histoire See also:des miracles et des convulsionnaires de St Medard ; M . See also:Tollemache, French Jansenists (See also:London, 1893) .

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