Louis Gabriel Brosse

Louis Gabriel Brosse (* 1619 in Auxerre ; † August 1, 1685 in Saint-Denis ) was a French Benedictine .

Life

Louis Gabriel Brosse was born in Auxerre in 1619. In 1636 he entered the order of the Benedictines and became a novice in the monastery of St-Étienne . He took his religious vows on March 29 of the following year. In the time after that he turned to the study of philosophy , theology , canon law and pharmacology . He later became a nurse at the monastery in Saint-Denis, where he died on August 1, 1686.

Works

La vie de sainte Euphrosine Vierge et Martyre, patrone de l'abbaye de S.Jean de Beaulieu-lès-Compiegne, tirée des anciens auteurs et traduite en vers françois (Paris 1649)
Hymnes sur diférens sujets pieux (1650)
Les tombeaux et Mausolées des Rois inhumés dans l'église de S.Denys, depuis le Roi Dagobert jusqu'à Louis XII, avec un Abrégé des choses les plus notables arrivées pendant leur regne (Paris 1656)
La vie de saint Valeri en vers latins et françois, by Dom Louis-Gabriel Brosse (Paris 1669)
La vie de sainte Marguerite en vers françois (Paris 1669)
Vies des Saints de l'Ordre de Saint Benoît, pour tous les jours de l'année (unpublished)

literature

Georgios Fatouros : Brosse, Louis Gabriel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 245-246. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Jean-Philippe Le Cerf: Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la Congrégation de St. Maur . Chez Pierre Gosse, 1726.
Claude-Pierre Goujet: Bibliothèque françoise, ou Histoire de la littérature françoise . Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

Remarks

↑ In the BBKL August 1, 1686 is given as the date of death, the other literature, however, agrees with 1685.
↑ The BBKL speaks from March 27th. Here, too, the information from the two other sources agree.

personal data
SURNAME	Brosse, Louis Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French Benedictine
DATE OF BIRTH	1619
PLACE OF BIRTH	Auxerre
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1686
Place of death	Saint-Denis

[1] In the BBKL August 1, 1686 is given as the date of death, the other literature, however, agrees with 1685.

[2] The BBKL speaks from March 27th. Here, too, the information from the two other sources agree.