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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
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THOMAS (1634-1698)  , sieur du
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Fosse,
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French
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scholar and author, was the son ,of a
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master of accounts at
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Rouen . He was sent as a
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child to be educated at
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Port Royal, and there he received his final
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bent towards the
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life of a recluse,and even of a
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hermit, which
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drew him to establish himself in the neighbourhood of Port Royal
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des Champs . In 1661 be came to
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Paris, and in 1666 was arrested along with I . L . Le
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Maistre (de Sacy), and after a
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month in the
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Bastille was exiled to his
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estate of Fosse . He later made yearly visits to Paris . Apart from his collaboration with de Sacy,
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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
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mirror of the life at Port Royal .

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