Antoine_Rivet_de_La_Grange

Antoine Rivet de La Grange

Antoine Rivet de La Grange

Add article description

Dom Antoine Rivet de La Grange (Confolens, 1683 - Le Mans, 1749) was a French benedictine monk and supporter of Jansenism.

He was opposed to the Unigenitus papal bull and, because he was Jansenist, his superiors sent him to the Abbey of St. Vincent in Le Mans, 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 Histoire littéraire de la France (1733–49), which was continued by François Clément and later by the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

References

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


Stub icon

This biographical article about a French religious figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Antoine_Rivet_de_La_Grange, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.