Jacques Bouillart (1669 – 11 December 1726) was a

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monk of the Congregation of St.-Maur. Bouillart was born in the

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. He professed at the Monastery of St. Faron de Meaux in 1687. He was the author of ''Histoire de l'abbaye royale de

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'' (Paris, 1724). This history of the Benedictine monastery contains biographies of the abbots that ruled over it, since its foundation by

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in 543, along with historical events related to the abbey. It also contains many illustrations and detailed descriptions of architecture, art and historical documents. Bouillart also edited a

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. In this publication he attempted to establish the genuineness and authenticity of the manuscript preserved at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, against the Jesuit

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Père

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(1669–1740), who in his revised edition of Usuard's martyrology had paid no attention to this manuscript.

References

*De Lama, ''Bibliothèque des écrivains de la congrégation de Saint-Maur'' (Munich and Paris, 1882), 128 *

Magnoald Ziegelbauer Magnoald Ziegelbauer (1689 in Ellwangen, Swabia – 14 January 1750 at Olmütz) was a Benedictine monk and ecclesiastical historian. Life He took vows at the Benedictine monastery of Zwiefalten on 21 November 1707, where he was ordained priest o ...

, ''Historia rei literariae ordinis S. Benedicti'' (Augsburg and Wurzburg, 1754), IV, 558 *

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, ''Nomenclator'' (Innsbruck, 1893), II, 1201 *

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, ''Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la Congrégation de Saint-Maur'' (The Hague 1726) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouillart, Jacques 1669 births 1726 deaths French Benedictines 18th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers