- Jacques Bouillart
- Jacques Bouillart
Jacques Bouillart† Catholic_Encyclopedia ► Jacques BouillartA Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St.-Maur, b. in the Diocese of Chartres, 1669; professed at the Monastery of St. Faron de Meaux 1687, d. 11 December, 1726. He was the author of "Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prés" (Paris, 1724). This valuable history of the celebrated Benedictine monastery contains biographies of the abbots that ruled over it, since its foundation by Childeric I in 543 and many important historical events relative to the famous abbey. Bouillart also edited a martyrology of Usuard. In this publication he attempts to establish the genuineness and authenticity of the manuscript preserved at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, against the Jesuit hagiographer Du Sollier, who in his revised edition of Usuard's martyrology had paid no attention to this manuscript.DE LAMA, Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la congregation de Saint-Maur (Munich and Paris, 1882), 128; ZIEGELBAUER, Hist. Rei lit. O. S. B. (Augsburg and Wurzburg, 1754), IV, 558); HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1893), II, 1201; LE CERF, Bibl. hist. et crit. des auteurs de la c.de St. Maur (The Hague 1726).MICHAEL OTTTranscribed by Joseph E. O'ConnorThe Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. Nihil Obstat. 1910.
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