Jean de Launoy (Joannes Launoius) (21 December 1603 – 10 March 1678) was a French historian. Known as "le dénicheur des saints", he was a critical historiographer. He was on the sceptical side over the supposed
papal bull ''Sacratissimo uti culmine'' (see
Sabbatine Privilege). In papal politics he was a
Gallican, in theology a
Jansenist
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.
Life
Jean de Launoy was born in
Le Valdécie
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resurre ...
as pious nonsense. He considered the ''vita'' concerning
Catherine of Alexandria
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a myth.
France, Anatole. ''The Life of Joan of Arc'', Vol. 1, p.lv, J. Lane, 1909
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In his books and letters he developed a strong and coherent form of Gallicanism, rejecting the infallibility of the Roman pontiff and professing the superiority of the general council.
He died in Paris, on March 10, 1678.
Works
* ''Dissertationes tres: Quarum una Gregorii Turonensis de septem episcoporum adventu in Galliam: Altera Sulpitii Severi de primis Galliae martyribus locus defenditur; et in utraque diversarum Galliae ecclesiarum origines tractantur: Tertia, quid de primi Cenomannorum antistitis epocha sentiendum'' (Paris, 1651)
* ''Explicata Ecclesie traditio circa canonem: Omnis utriusque'' (1672)
* ''Præscriptiones de Conceptu B. Mariæ Virginis'' (1677)
* ''Opera Omnia'' (Geneva, 1731)
References
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Works
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1603 births
1678 deaths
17th-century French historians
French male non-fiction writers