Dom Antoine Rivet de La Grange (
Confolens
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, 1683 -
Le Mans
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, 1749) was a French
benedictine monk
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, found ...
and supporter of
Jansenism
Jansenism was an early modern theological movement within Catholicism, primarily active in the Kingdom of France, that emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination. It was declared a heresy by t ...
.
He was opposed to the
Unigenitus
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papal bull and, because he was Jansenist, his superiors sent him to the Abbey of St. Vincent in
Le Mans
Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ...
, where he spent the last thirty years of his life.
Dom Rivet finished the ''Nécrologe de Port-Royal des Champs'' (1723) and edited the first nine volumes of the ''
Histoire littéraire de la France
''Histoire littéraire de la France'' is an enormous history of French literature initiated in 1733 by Dom Rivet and the Benedictines of St. Maur. It was abandoned in 1763 after the publication of volume XII. In 1814, members of the Académie de ...
'' (1733–49), which was continued by
François Clément
François Clement ( 714, Bèze, Côte-d'Or">Bèze.html" ;"title="714, Bèze">714, Bèze, Côte-d'Or – 29 March 1793, Paris) was a French historian and member of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Maur.
Biography
His first studies were at the co ...
and later by the French
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...
.
References
Marie-Nicolas Bouillet et Alexis Chassang (ed.), "Antoine Rivet de La Grange", in ''Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie'', 1878
Wikisource
1683 births
1749 deaths
18th-century French historians
French Benedictines
18th-century French writers
18th-century French male writers
Jansenists
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