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JACQUES See also: scholar and Jesuit, was See also: born at See also: Riom, See also: Auvergne, on the 12th or the 22nd of See also: October 1559
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He was educated at the Jesuit See also: College of Billom; having been a novice at See also: Verdun and then at Pont-a-Mousson, he entered into the See also: order on the 26th of See also: July 1576
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After having taught rhetoric at See also: Paris he resided for a long See also: time in See also: Rome as secretary to R
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See also: Aquaviva (1590-1608); in 1637 he was See also: confessor to See also: Louis XIII
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He died on the 7th of October 1651
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See also: Father See also: Sirmond was a most industrious scholar, and his criticisms were as enlightened as was possible for a See also: man living in those times
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He brought out many See also: editions of Latin and See also: Byzantine chroniclers of the See also: middle ages: Ennodius and See also: Flodoard (1611), Sidonius See also: Apollinaris (1614), the See also: life of St See also: Leo IX. by the archdeacon Wibert (1615), See also: Marcellinus and Idatius (1619), See also: Anastasius the librarian (1620), See also: Eusebius of Caesarea (1643), See also: Hincmar (1645), Hrabanus Maurus (1647), See also: Rufinus and Loup de Ferrieres (1650), &c., and above all his edition of the capitularies of See also: Charles the Bald (Karoli
See also: Calvi et successorum aliquot Franciae regum capitula, 1623) and of the See also: councils of See also: ancient See also: France (Concilia antiquae Galliae, 1629, 3 vols., new ed. incomplete, 1789)
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An essay in which he denies the identity of St Denis of Paris and St Denis the Areopagite (1641), caused a very lively controversy from which his opinion came out victorious
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His See also: Opera See also: varia, where this essay is to be found, as well as a description in Latin verse of his voyage from Paris to Rome in 1590, have appeared in 5 vols
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(1696; new ed
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Venice, 1728)
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To him is attributed, and no doubt correctly, Elogio di cardinale Baronio (1607) . See the Bibliotheque See also: des Peres de la Compagnie de Jesus by Father See also: Carlos Sommervogel, tome vii
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(1896)
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