Joseph Giry de Saint-Cyr
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Joseph Giry de Saint-Cyr (also: Odet-Joseph Giry ; * February 14, 1699 in Lyon , † January 13, 1761 in Versailles ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, Commendatarabbot and member of the Académie française .
life and work
Odet-Joseph Giry de Saint-Cyr grew up in Lyon and was tonsured as early as 1714 . 1716–1718 he studied at the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris. He succeeded his godfather as Canon of Saint-Just , was ordained a priest in 1723 and obtained a doctorate in theology in 1726. After a time as vicar general in the Archdiocese of Tours , he became sub-preceptor of the Dauphin (* 1729) under Jean-François Boyer , with whom he developed a close relationship and maintained it for a long time.
Giry was Commendatarabbot of four different monasteries: 1726–1749 of the Cistercian Abbey Valbenoîte , 1733–1749 of the Cistercian Abbey of Clarté-Dieu , 1741–1749 of an unidentified abbey in Rouen , and finally from 1749 of the Abbey of Saint-Martin in Troarn .
As a high-ranking courtier, he was admitted to the Académie française (seat No. 37) in 1741. In 1758 he published a satirical catechism directed against the Enlightenment (mockingly "cacouacs"), in which almost all of the answers consist of quotations taken from the writings of the Enlightenment. Gerhardt Stenger (* 1955) speaks of a clumsy montage of quotations (“montage maladroit de citations”). The writing followed the 1757 pamphlet published Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire des cacouacs of Jacob Nicolas Moreau (1717-1803), which in turn in de France Mercure contribution utile Avis, ou Premier Mémoire sur les Cacouacs was (1757) preceded . He died in 1761 at the age of 61.
Works
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Catéchisme et décisions de cas de conscience, à l'usage des Cacouacs, avec un Discours du patriarche des Cacouacs, pour la réception d'un nouveau disciple . Cacopolis 1758. (digitized in Gallica)
- (modern edition) Gerhardt Stenger (ed.): L'Affaire des Cacouacs. Trois pamphlets contre les Philosophes des Lumières . Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne 2004.
literature
- Jean Beyssac: Un Lyonnais à l'Académie française. Odet-Joseph de Giry de Vaux . Trévoux 1906 [1]
- François-Albert Duffo (Ed.) Abbé Soldini: Le Dauphin Louis VIII, père de Louis XVI. Sa vie. II. Son éducation. (1729-1765) . P. Lethielleux, Paris 1936. (contains letters from Giry to the Dauphin)
- Jean-Louis Vissière (ed.): La secte des empoisonneurs. Polémiques near the Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert . Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence 1993, pp. 40-41.
Web links
- Information on Joseph Giry de Saint-Cyr in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Joseph Giry de Saint-Cyr in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Literature by and about Joseph Giry de Saint-Cyr in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Academic speech by the successor with appreciation of the predecessor , French
- Reply to the successor's academy speech also with appreciation of the predecessor , in French
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giry de Saint-Cyr, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Saint-Cyr, Abbé de; Giry, Odet-Joseph; Odet-Joseph de Vaux de Giry; Odet-Joseph de Giry de Vaux |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Roman Catholic clergyman and member of the Académie française |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1761 |
| Place of death | Versailles |