BLANLO, JEAN. — French Sulpician, an immediate disciple of Olier, born at Bayeux in 1617 and died in Paris in 1657.
Out of humility, he had remained a subdeacon. He is known for a posthumous and deeply pious treatise, L'Enfance chrétienne, qui est une participation de l'esprit et de la grâce du divin Enfant Jésus (Paris 1665), which was often reprinted. It was recently translated into Italian: L'infanzia spirituale (Milan 1940), with a biographical notice.
BIBL.: E. M. Faillon, Vie de Mr Olier, III, Paris 1873, pp. 163–65; H. Bremond, Hist. litt. du sentiment vel. en France, III, there 1925, pp. 523–31. Edmondo Lamalle