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PIERRE THOMAS (1634-1698)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE THOMAS (1634-1698)  , sieur du Fosse, French scholar and author, was the son ,of a master of accounts at
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Rouen . He was sent as a child to be educated at
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Port Royal, and there he received his final bent towards the
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life of a recluse,and even of a
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hermit, which drew him to establish himself in the neighbourhood of Port Royal
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des Champs . In 1661 be came to Paris, and in 1666 was arrested along with I . L . Le Maistre (de Sacy), and after a month in the Bastille was exiled to his estate of Fosse . He later made yearly visits to Paris . Apart from his collaboration with de Sacy, Thomas wrote some hagiographic
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works and
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left Memoires (1697–1698 and again 1876–1879), which are highly praised by Ste Beuve as being a remarkable mirror of the life at Port Royal .

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