Louis de Carrières (1 September 1662 in
Angers
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– 11 June 1717 in
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) was a French priest and Bible commentator.
Carrières was born in the chateau de la Plesse in Avrille, Angers. He entered the
French Oratory
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at a time when such masters as
Le Cointe,
Louis Thomassin
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At the age of thirteen he entered the Oratory and for some years was professor of literature ...
,
Nicolas Malebranche,
Richard Simon and
Bernard Lamy
Bernard Lamy (15 June 1640 – 29 January 1715) was a French Oratorian, mathematician and theologian.
Life
Lamy was born in Le Mans, France. After studying there, he went to join the Maison d'Institution in Paris, and to Saumur thereafter. I ...
were flourishing, and made the Bible the preferred subject of his studies. He founded a scholarship in Biblical studies, the first beneficiary of which was
Charles Houbigant. Carrières held various offices in his community, and earned the reputation as a priest both modest and learned.
His work ''La Sainte Bible en francais, avee un commentaire littéral inséré dans la traduction'' won a place among the readers of the scriptures in French. It differs markedly from anything published by earlier commentators. Taking
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy's translation as a framework, Carrières added a few words of paraphrase here and there to explain difficulties or clear up obscure places. These simple and short additions inspired for the most part by
Vatable,
Tirinus,
Menochius
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Life
Menochio was born at Padua, and entered the Society of Jesus on 25 May 1594. After the usual years of training and teaching the classics, he became professor of sacre ...
,
Bonfrere and
Cornelius Jansen
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, and printed in italics, are easily discernible from the text itself, with which they are also united so as to form one continuous narrative. There are thus no notes to interrupt the text. There are a few errors, however — occasional mistranslations, some groundless hypotheses and opinions later discredited, some unfortunate choices of authorities and interpretations.
The first volumes published at Paris and
Reims in the beginning of the eighteenth century were heartily welcomed and highly recommended by
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
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, who encouraged the writer to pursue his work. The commentary, forming twenty-four volumes,
duodecimo
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, was completed in 1716. New editions rapidly followed: the second edition with preface, summaries, and dissertations compiled by the Abbé de Vence, twenty-two volumes, duodecimo (Nancy, 1738-1741); third edition, five volumes, octavo (Paris, 1740); fourth edition, ten volumes, octavo (1747); fifth edition, with maps and illustrations, six volumes, quarto (1750), etc. Carrières' paraphrase, slightly corrected, together with an abridged revision of
Calmet's commentaries and a few dissertations from the Abbé de Vence, made up
Rondet's ''Bible d'Avignon'' (1748-1750), widely known later as the ''Bible de Vence''. During the nineteenth century Carrières's version was frequently reprinted, often with the commentaries of Menochius, sometimes also with the notes of nineteenth-century interpreters, like
Sionnet (1840) and
Claude-Joseph Drioux
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Drioux was born 17 February 1820 at Bourdons, Haute-Marne. He was first priest, then ...
(1884).
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This article incorporates text from the 1913 ''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrieres, Louis de
1662 births
1717 deaths
French biblical scholars