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TILLEMONT
, S$BASTIEN LE NAIN DE (1637-1698), See also:French ecclesiastical historian, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 3oth of See also:November 1637
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His See also:father, a wealthy member of the legal class, being a devoted Jansenist, the boy was brought up in the little See also:schools of See also:Port Royal
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Here his See also:bent towards See also:historical study was warmly encouraged, and in 166o he was made a See also:tutor in the See also:seminary of Buzenval, Jansenist See also:bishop of -See also:Beauvais
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Ten years later he came back to Paris, and was eventually persuaded (1676) to enter the priesthood, and become a See also:chaplain at Port Royal
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In 1679 the See also:storm of persecution drove him to See also:settle on his See also:family See also:estate of Tillemont, between See also:Montreuil and See also:Vincennes
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There he spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life, dying on the loth of See also:January 1698
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He was buried at Port Royal; in 1711, on the desecration of the See also:cemetery, his remains were transferred
From the See also:age of twenty he was at See also:work on his two See also:great books—the Memoires pour servir d l'histoire ecclesiastique See also:des six premiers siecles, and the Histoire des empereurs during the same See also:period
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Both See also:works began to appear during his lifetime—the Histoire in 169o, the Memoires in 1693—but in neither See also:case was the publication
many of their designs were produced by such famous architects as See also:Pugin, See also: finished till See also:long after his See also:death . To his modesty See also:Bossuet bears See also:witness, when he told him to stand up sometimes, and not be always on his knees before a critic . See also:Gibbon vouches for his learning, when (in the 47th See also:chapter) he speaks of "this incomparable See also:guide, whose bigotry is overbalanced by the merits of erudition, See also:diligence, veracity and scrupulous minuteness." There is a full See also:account of his life in the 4th See also:volume of Sainte-Beuve's Port Royal . |
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