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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 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 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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