Fabio Brulart de Sillery (25 October 1655, château de Pressigny – 20 November 1714,

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) was a French churchman,

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and

bishop of Soissons The Roman Catholic Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin (Latin: ''Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Ch ...

.''Inventaire, lecture, invention: mélanges de critique et d'histoire''. Bernard Beugnot, Jacinthe Martel, Jacques Allard - 1999 "Fabio Brûlart de Sillery (1655–1714) devait son prénom au pape Alexandre VII, Fabio Chigi, dont le nonce Piccolomini l'avait tenu sur les fonts .." Great grandson of Henri de Montmorency and godson of

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to whom he owes his Italian given name, he studied ancient Greek and Hebrew and received the title of doctor aged only 26. Député to the assembly of the clergy in 1685, he became bishop of Avranches in 1689, then of Soissons from 1692 to 1714. A member of the Académie de Soissons, he was elected a member of the

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in 1701, then of the

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in 1705. Only a few of Fabio Brulart de Sillery's writings survive, including some poems and dissertations, a harangue against

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, a

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, and some other texts published by François Lamy in 1700 with some by

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and

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under the title ''Réflexions sur l'éloquence''.

References

External links

Biography on the Académie française site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brulart de Sillery, Fabio 1655 births 1714 deaths People from Indre-et-Loire Bishops of Avranches Bishops of Soissons Translators from Hebrew French classical scholars Members of the Académie Française Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French male writers 17th-century French translators