Jacques Longueval (18 March 1680 – 14 January 1735) was a French
Jesuit priest, theologian, scholar and historian of the
Catholic Church
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in France.
Biography
Jacques Longueval was born on 18 March 1680 in
Péronne, France.
He entered the Jesuit
novitiate on 17 September 1699.
He taught grammar and humanities classes from 1700 to 1707 at the colleges of
Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
and
La Flèche
La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most po ...
.
Then he taught theology from 1719 to 1728, before retiring to the
Professed House
In the Society of Jesus, a professed house was a residence where - in a spirit of radical poverty - no member had a stable income. The Jesuit priests who lived there, all of whom have made the profession of the four vows, undertake their spiritual ...
house in Paris, where he gathered documentation and did research for his ''Histoire de l’Église gallicane'' (History of the Gallican Church).
In recognition of his work, the
Assembly of the French clergy
The assembly of the French clergy (''assemblée du clergé de France'') was in its origins a representative meeting of the Catholic clergy of France, held every five years, for the purpose of apportioning the financial burdens laid upon the clergy ...
granted him, in 1730, an annual pension of 500 pounds and a gratuity of 2,500 pounds.
Unfortunately, a stroke took him into his fifty-fourth year, while he was in the process of completing the 8th volume.
Longueval died on 14 January 1735 in Paris.
He had almost put the finishing touches to the 9th and 10th volumes.
Fathers
Pierre-Claude Fontenai
Pierre-Claude Fontenai (16 July 1683, in Paris – 13 October 1742, in La Flèche), was an 18th-century French Jesuit priest and historian.
He was rector of the college of Orléans when he was instructed to continue the ''Histoire de l'Église ga ...
,
Pierre Brumoy and
Guillaume-François Berthier continued the eleventh and following volumes of the monumental work, which ran to 18 volumes.
Among his papers is a ''History of Pelagianism'', which was his first work.
Écrits
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1680 births
1735 deaths
18th-century French historians