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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.
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.
Life
Jean de Launoy was born inLe Valdécie
Le Valdécie () is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Bricquebec-en-Cotentin.Mary Magdalen as pious nonsense. He considered the ''vita'' concerning Catherine of Alexandria a myth.France, Anatole. ''The Life of Joan of Arc'', Vol. 1, p.lv, J. Lane, 1909
/ref> 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.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Launoy, Jean 1603 births 1678 deaths 17th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers
/ref> 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Launoy, Jean 1603 births 1678 deaths 17th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers