Louis Adrien Le Paige
Louis Adrien Le Paige (* 1712 ; † 1803 ) was a French lawyer, member of the parlement and the most important Jansenist publicist of the Ancien Régime .
Already at the age of twenty he fought from 1732 against those of Pope Clement XI. In 1713, at the request of Louis XIV , he wrote the bull Unigenitus Dei filius , which primarily opposed the Jansenist conception of salvation published in the theses of Pasquier Quesnel and Antoine Arnauld ( le Nouveau Testament en français avec des Réflexions morales ). Le Paige was aware of the explosive political power of the theological bull and fought throughout his life in the highest French court, the "parlement", and especially in the publications of the Nouvelles écclésiastiques for Jansenism and the independence of the individual in questions of faith and against the influence of the ultramontane church or the Jesuits . He was Vogt ( bailly ) to the Prince de Conti in the Temple in Paris and, with the support of the rebellious prince, was able to organize part of the anti-Jesuit and anti-monarchist clandestine press from there. His extensive written work, which touches on theological as well as political questions, is now in the Bibliothèque du Port Royal in Paris.
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| SURNAME | Le Paige, Louis Adrien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1712 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1803 |