Julien Paris

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Julien Paris († June 9, 1672 ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, Cistercian , abbot , order reformer, order historian and editor.

life and work

The Cistercian

Paris entered the Cistercian Abbey of Prières (southeast of Vannes ) and became a doctor of theology at the Sorbonne . The Prières monastery was a center of strict observance under Abbot Jean Jouaud (term of office 1631–1673) , to which Julien Paris is also to be counted.

The abbot

From 1646 to 1671 he was - as the successor to Jean Pelletier († July 3, 1645) - abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Foucarmont (between Dieppe and Amiens, now gone). During his tenure there was an unauthorized meeting of representatives of the Strict Observanz (with the presence of Jean Jouaud) in May 1650, which played a role in the dispute between the Observances under Abbot General Claude Vaussin .

The order historian

Abbot Julien has been involved in the dispute between the observances with two weighty publications on the side of the strict ones. In 1653 he presented a reform-oriented history of the order under the title Du premier Esprit de l'Ordre de Cîteaux ("On the original spirit of the Cistercian order") on 650 pages, which saw a second edition in 1670 and was groundbreaking for Jean de Rancé . In 1664 he added a collection of texts, the now well-known Nomasticon Cisterciense , which was also reprinted in 1670. It was given a new edition by Hugues Séjalon (1824-1890, Trappist of the Abbey of Notre-Dame des Dombes ), which was printed in 1892 in the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes .

Paris was one of the most eloquent and most effective representatives of the strict observance; his asceticism and willingness to reform were combined with a scientific mind and a deep sense of history.

Works

  • You premier Esprit de l'Ordre de Cîteaux où sont traitées plusieurs choses nécessaires pour la connaissance et le rétablissement du gouvernement et des mœurs des Instituteurs de cet Ordre et pour l'intelligence de la règle de saint Benoist. Paris 1653.
  • (Ed.) Nomasticon Cisterciense seu antiquiores Ordinis Cistercienses constitutiones . A RPPD Iuliano Paris, Monasterii Fulcardimontis strictioris Observantiae ejusdem Ordinis Abbate et Sacrae Facultatis Parisiensi Doctore, collectae ac notis et observationibus adornatae. Widow Gervais Alliot († 1654) and Gilles Alliot (1636–1674), Paris 1664. (with dedication to Guillaume Ier de Lamoignon, marquis de Basville, 1617–1677, President of Parliament)
    • (second edition, same title) Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris 1670.
    • (new ed.) Hugues Séjalon (* 1824 in Trévoux ; † April 23, 1890) (same title) Saint-Pierre Abbey, Solesmes 1892.

literature

  • Anselme Dimier , Emile Brouette and Eugène Manning : Dictionnaire des auteurs cisterciens . Rochefort, Belgium, Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy de Rochefort, 1975–1978, column 428 (sv Julien Paris).
  • Immo Eberl : The Cistercians. History of a European Order . Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2nd edition 2007, pp. 431–435.
  • Gallia Christiana vol. 11, column 306.
  • Jacques Le Long (1665–1721): Bibliothèque historique de la France, contenant le catalog des ouvrages, imprimés & manuscrits, qui traitent de l'histoire de ce Royaume, ou qui y ont rapport; avec des notes critiques et historique: Tome premier, Volume 1 . Paris 1768, p. 801 (no.12943) and p. 803 (no.12972).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Bell, The Library of the Abbey of La Trappe (Turnhout 2014), pp. 98-99; Translation from English.
personal data
SURNAME Paris, Julien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paris, Julianus; Paris, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Cistercian, abbot, historian and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1672