Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French
Dominican biographer and historian.
He was born at
Graulhet
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It is a centre of Tanning (leather), tanning. Leather was the main activity before this industry largely relocated t ...
,
Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...
); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and
apologetics
Apologetics (from Greek , "speaking in defense") is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse. Early Christian writers (c. 120–220) who defended their beliefs against critics and ...
. He died at Paris.
He wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men.
Père Mortier, in his ''Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs'', made generous use of his ''Histoire des hommes illustres...''.
Touron's writings include:
* "Vie de saint
Thomas d'Aquin" (considered his best work)
* "Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples"
* "Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique"
* "De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor."
* "La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites", a work in which he shows that as often as the
Chosen People
Throughout history, various groups of people have considered themselves to be the chosen people of a deity, for a particular purpose. The phenomenon of a "chosen people" is well known among the Israelites and Jews, where the term ( he, עם ס ...
proved false to their Divine vocation, they were punished by God
* "Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle"
* "La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée"
* "La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas"
* "Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte", an ecclesiastical history of the New World.
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1686 births
1775 deaths
French Dominicans
18th-century French historians
French male non-fiction writers