Louis Basile Carré de Montgeron

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Ratilly Castle

Louis Basile Carré de Montgeron (born 1686 in Paris ; died 1754 in Valence , Drôme ) was a French writer and Councilor of Parliament in Paris. He saw his life's work in the defense of Jansenism and the convulsionaries .

Life

When after the death of the Catholic deacon ( diacre ) and theologian François de Pâris (1690–1727) in the early 1730s in the area of ​​the parish of Saint-Médard near the Abbey of Port-Royal de Paris , various spontaneous miracle healings occurred among the persecuted Jansenists , Montgeron was convinced he saw works of God in it. In 1732 he bought Ratilly Castle with the aim of helping Abbé Terrasson, who was in exile there, in spreading Jansenist ideas . After a visit to Jean Soanen in La Chaise-Dieu in the late autumn of 1732, who encouraged him to write down his experiences, he presented a documentation of eight cases about the 'truth of miracles' ( La vérité des miracles ) with numerous certificates, testimonies, etc. together, the healing in all cases being due to a visit to the tomb of the popular saint François de Pâris. This documentation, with portraits of the healed by Jean Restout , he later published as a book with a dedication to the French king , to whom he presented a copy in a private audience and criticized the bull Unigenitus Dei filius in the hope that the monarch would benefit from this Jansenists to be able to vote. The author was arrested immediately at the instigation of Cardinal de Fleury and imprisoned in the Bastille by means of a Lettre de cachet , as was Abbé Terrasson. De Montgeron spent the rest of his life in various prisons, first in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon , in Viviers and from 1739 in the citadel of Valence , where he had to pay for food and accommodation himself, but was able to continue his work and publish it abroad . He died in Valence after 17 years of imprisonment and was buried there in the poor cemetery.

Works

  • La vérité des miracles operés par l'intercession de M. de Pâris démontrée contre M. l ' Archevêque de Sens , 3 tomes, 1737, 1741 et 1747. (Digital copies of the new Cologne edition : 1 , 2 , 3 )

literature

  • Pierre-François Mathieu: Histoire des Miraculés et des Convulsionnaires de Saint-Médard. Précédée de la vie du diacre Paris , d'une notice sur Carré de Montgeron et d'un coup d'œil sur Jansénisme depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours , Paris 1864 (Deuxième édition) - digitized
  • Louis Cognet: Le jansénisme . Paris: PUF 1961 ( Review )
  • Otto H. Selles: Des convulsions à Paris et dans les Cévennes : le jansénisme convulsionnaire et le protestantisme prophétique selon Louis-Basile Carré de Montgeron et Maximilien Misson . In: Chroniques de Port Royal . Vol. 47, 1998, pp. 405-428.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François de Pâris (French)
  2. ↑ Gaspard Terrasson (English)
  3. ↑ Montgeron, Louis-Basile Carré de ( Memento of August 26, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) (with a translated listing of the miraculous healings)
personal data
SURNAME Montgeron, Louis Basile Carré de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montgeron, Louis-Basile Carré de; Montgeron, Louis-Basile Carré de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Councilor of Parliament and representative of Jansenism
DATE OF BIRTH 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1754
Place of death Valence