Nicolas Cornet (
Amiens, 1572 –
Paris, 1663) was a French Catholic theologian.
Life
He studied at the Jesuit college of Amiens, took the doctorate of theology at the
University of Paris, 1626, and soon became president of the
Collège de Navarre and
syndic
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of the
Sorbonne (faculty of theology). In this latter capacity he reported to the assembly of the Sorbonne, 1649, seven propositions, two taken from
Antoine Arnauld's ''Fréquente Communion'' and five from the ''
Augustinus
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'' of
Jansenius.
In spite of strong opposition created by members of the faculty who, with , appealed to Parliament and by
Jansenists like
De Bourseis in "Propositiones de gratiâ in Sorbonnæ facultate prope diem examinandæ, propositæ Cal. Junii 1649", and Arnauld in "Considérations sur l'entreprise faite par M. Cornet, syndic de la faculté, en l'assemblée de Juillet 1649", he succeeded in having the Assembly of the Clergy of 1650 denounce the five propositions of the ''Augustinus'' to
Pope Innocent X, who condemned them, 31 May 1653.
Maligned by Jansenist writers like
Hermant, Cornet was held in high esteem by
Richelieu
Richelieu (, ; ) may refer to:
People
* Cardinal Richelieu (Armand-Jean du Plessis, 1585–1642), Louis XIII's chief minister
* Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu (1582–1653), French Carthusian bishop and Cardinal
* Louis François Armand ...
and
Mazarin. His eulogy was pronounced by
Bossuet.
[''Oraison funèbre de Messire Nicolas Cornet''] He left no writings, but is said to have collaborated with Richelieu on the ''Méthodes de controverse''.
Notes
References
;Attribution
* cites:
**Rapin, Mémoires (Paris, 1865);
**
Sainte-Beuve
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (; 23 December 1804 – 13 October 1869) was a French literary critic.
Early life
He was born in Boulogne, educated there, and studied medicine at the Collège Charlemagne in Paris (1824–27). In 1828, he se ...
, Port-Royal (Paris, 1871);
**Rohrbacher, Histoire universelle (Paris, 1885), XI, 9, 150.
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1572 births
1663 deaths
University of Paris alumni
University of Paris faculty
17th-century French Catholic theologians