Jacques Sirmond

Jacques Sirmond (12 or October 22nd 1559 with Riom - October 7th 1651) is a French man of the church, confessor of Louis XIII. He is regarded as one of the largest scholars of his time.

Its life and its work

He makes his studies with the college Jésuite of Billom, then, after its noviciate with Verdun and Pont-à-Mousson, it is ordered priest in 1576. Starting from 1581, it teaches the Rhétorique with Paris, where it counts François de Sales among his pupils. In 1590, it goes to Rome, where he is secretary of Claudio Acquaviva until in 1608. He attends Robert Bellarmin like Caesar Baronius and devotes his leisures to the study of the old texts which he discovers in the library vaticane. He is named confessor of Louis XIII in 1637.

Jacques Sirmond is known to have published forty Latin authors and chroniclers and Byzantine S of the medieval time, among which:

One still owes him an edition of the Concile S of Gaulle, Concilia antiquae Galliae , appeared in three volumes in 1629, as well as a Historia Praedestinatiana , treated against the doctrines of the Prédestination, published in 1648. Its Opera varied , appeared in five volumes in 1696 and republished with Venice in 1728, contain in particular a test in which it shows that Denys Aréopagite and Denis of Paris are two distinct saints, as well as the Hodoeporicum , a relation in Latin worms of its voyage of Paris to Rome in 1590. One allots finally a to him Elogio di cardinal Baronio , appeared in 1607.

Pierre-Daniel Huet, which knew Sirmond towards the end of its life, writing: “I often saw, being young, the learned Jacques Sirmond, then almost centenary, but whose body was healthy, though it did not give him a exercise. I found it so to speak lying among his books, seldom left, and not taking of slackening (if one can employ this word in the case in question) that what its discussions with his/her friends required on serious matters and of literature. ”

Voltaire said of Sirmond that “it was one of most erudite and of the most pleasant men of his time. It is hardly known that he was confessor of Louis XIII, because he hardly made speak about him in this delicate station. He was preferred by the pope with all the scientists of Italy to make the Foreword of the Collection of the councils. Its many works were very estimated, and are read very little. ”

Its nephew, Jean Sirmond, will be a burning defender of Richelieu and one of the first members of the French Academy.

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