Michel Tronchay (October 1668 – 30 October 1733) was a French

Catholic priest The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms ''priest'' refers only ...

, writer, philosopher, and the secretary of French historian

Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (30 November 163710 January 1698) was a French ecclesiastical historian. Life He was born in Paris into a wealthy Jansenist family, and was educated at the ''Petites écoles'' of Port-Royal, where his histori ...

. After Tillemont's death, Tronchay completed and published volumes 6–16 of ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique des six premiers siècles'', a history of the first six centuries of the Christian church. He also completed and published the final volume 6 of ''Histoire des empereurs et autres princes qui ont régné pendant les six premiers siècles de l'Église'', a history of the

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. That work was often cited by

Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and member of parliament. His most important work, ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is k ...

in his ''

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''. Tronchay published a biography of Tillemont in 1706, ''Idee de la vie et de T esprit de M. L. de Tillemont'', and a history of

Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey Port-Royal-des-Champs was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Magny-les-Hameaux, in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. History The abbey was established in 1204, but became fam ...

titled ''Histoire abrégée de l'abbaye de PortRoyal''. Tronchay was born in

Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et ...

in October 1668. He died on 30 October 1733.

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*"Michel Tronchay", in Alphonse-Victor Angot, Ferdinand Gaugain, ''Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne'', Goupil, 1900–1910

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* 1668 births 1733 deaths French male writers 17th-century French Roman Catholic priests People from Mayenne 18th-century French Roman Catholic priests {{france-RC-clergy-stub

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