Adrien Baillet

Its life and its work

Resulting from a poor family, it makes her studies with the seminar of Beauvais, then teaches humanities there. Ordered priest in 1676, it is cleaned of Lardières, then canon of Beaumont-les-Nonains. Dissatisfied of this life, it goes to Paris where it finds a post of librarian near prosecuting attorney Chrétien François de Lamoignon. Insatiable reader, it acquires a vast knowledge while establishing the reasoned catalog of the library in 32 volumes. He then puts himself to produce works of scholarship, devoted for the majority to the history and the religion.

Its Jugement of the scientists causes some movements because considered to be too favorable to the theses Jansenists. Its contentions with the Bollandistes still take a more serious turn when it is allowed to question the dogmas (not yet proclaimed by the Pope at the time) of the Immaculate Conception and the Assomption in one entitled book Dévotion the Virgin , which is promptly put at the Index. Most of its Vies of the saints will also know the same fate, because by drawing aside all the miracles which do not appear to him not proven, it approaches too dangerously the doctrines reformists.

Of health poor and weakened by an excess of study and austerity, it prematurely dies out in 1706.

Principal works

Judgment of the scientists on the principal works of the authors, 1685-86, 9 volumes
Of the Children become famous for their studies and their writings , 1688
Of the personal Satires, historical and critical treaty of those which carry the title of Anti , 1689,2 volumes
Auteurs disguised under foreign names, borrowed, supposed, made with pleasure, quantified, reversed, turned over or changed a language into another , 1690
Histoire of Holland, since the truce of 1600, where Grotius finishes, until our time, , 1690,4 volumes
Life of Descartes , 1691,2 volumes
Life of Richer , 1693
Devotion with the Virgin and the worship which is owe him , 1694
lives of the saints, made up on what remained to us of more authentic and moreover ensured in their history , 1701,3 volumes
Histoire of the contentions of the pope Boniface VIII with Philippe Beautiful the, king de France , 1717

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