PIERRE THOMAS (1634-1698)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 867
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:PIERRE See also:THOMAS (1634-1698)
, sieur du See also:Fosse, See also:French See also:scholar and author, was the son ,of a See also:master of accounts at See also:Rouen
.
He was sent as a See also:child to be educated at See also:Port Royal, and there he received his final See also:bent towards the See also:life of a recluse,and even of a See also:hermit, which See also:drew him to establish himself in the neighbourhood of Port Royal See also:des Champs
.
In 1661 be came to See also:Paris, and in 1666 was arrested along with I
.
L
.
Le See also:Maistre (de Sacy), and after a See also:month in the See also:Bastille was exiled to his See also:estate of Fosse
.
He later made yearly visits to Paris
.
Apart from his collaboration with de Sacy, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas wrote some hagiographic See also:works and See also:left Memoires (1697–1698 and again 1876–1879), which are highly praised by Ste Beuve as being a remarkable See also:mirror of the life at Port Royal
.
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