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ARMAND JEAN LE BOUTHILLIER DE RANCE (...

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN LE See also:BOUTHILLIER DE See also:RANCE (1626-1700)  , founder of the Trappist See also:Cistercians . He was See also:born in See also:Paris of a See also:noble and influential See also:family of See also:Normandy; hence, being destined to the ecclesiastical See also:state, he was when ten years old commendatory See also:abbot of La Trappe and two other abbeys, See also:prior of two priories, and See also:canon of Nbtre See also:Dame, Paris . At twelve he published a See also:translation of See also:Anacreon . He went through his course of theological studies with See also:great distinction, defeating See also:Bossuet at the Baccalaureat in See also:theology . He was ordained in 1651, and embarked on the ambitious and worldly career of a See also:court See also:abbe in the days of See also:Louis XIV . But after a few years he underwent a See also:complete See also:change of See also:life, and in 1662 he retired to his See also:abbey of La Trappe, of which he became See also:regular abbot in 1664 and introduced an austere reform (see See also:TRAPPISTS) . The best known See also:episode of his subsequent life was the " Contestation " with See also:Mabillon on the lawfulness of monks devoting themselves to study, which De See also:Rance denied . He resigned his abbacy in 1695, owing to declining See also:health, and died in 1700 . The best of the See also:early lives is that of P. le Nain, his sub-prior (1715) ; the most See also:recent is by M . Serrant, L'Abbe de Rance et Bossuet (19o3) . A sufficient See also:sketch is given by See also:Helyot, Histoire See also:des ordres religieux (1718), vi. c . 1 .

On the " Contestation " on Monastic Studies, see See also:

Maitland, Dark Ages, § x . (E . C .

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