Dom Antoine Rivet de La Grange (

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, 1683 -

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, 1749) was a French

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and supporter of

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. He was opposed to the

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papal bull and, because he was Jansenist, his superiors sent him to the Abbey of St. Vincent in

, where he spent the last thirty years of his life. Dom Rivet finished the ''Nécrologe de Port-Royal des Champs'' (1723) and edited the first nine volumes of the ''

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'' (1733–49), which was continued by

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and later by the French

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References

Marie-Nicolas Bouillet et Alexis Chassang (ed.), "Antoine Rivet de La Grange", in ''Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie'', 1878
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