Jean-Philippe the Stag of Viéville

Jean-Philippe the Stag of Viéville , born in 1677 with Rouen and died with the abbey of Fécamp the March 11th 1748, is a Religieux French.

Brother of the Magistrate and Musicologist Jean-Laurent the Stag of Viéville, It embraced the monastic life, made profession in the congregation of the Bénédictins of Saint-Maur, in 1696, and delivered himself successfully to the eloquence of the pulpit but, its physical forces not being able to resist tiredness which caused him and the composition of its sermons and vehemence with which it output them, he saw his health deteriorating appreciably. Sent to the Abbey of Fécamp to take some rest, it became grabataire for all the remainder of its life, i.e. during more than thirty years.

Untiring, in spite of the infirmities, Dom the Stag undertook and finished several works, inter alia: the historical and critical Library of the Authors of the Congregation of Saint-Maur . Not having been able to obtain its superiors the authorization to print this work, because of some satirical features that it contained against several of its fellow-members, the Stag of Viéville entrusted its manuscript to the famous abbot Prévost, who sent it in Holland, where Jean the Clerk published it in 1726.

There is same Benedictine: Defense of the historical and critical Library, etc Paris, 1727, in-12; Praise of Jean-Laurent the Stag of Fresneuse , in the Mercure de France of April 1726; History of the Constitution Unigenitus with regard to the congregation of Saint-Maur , Utrecht, 1735, in-12; Library of the authors of Normandy ; Apology for Norman the ; Life of the cardinal Of the Perron ; these last three works are new.

Source

Éloi Lebreton, Biography rouennaise , Rouen, Brument, 1865, p. 215

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