Also known as:
French: Dom Martin Bouquet;
Latin: Martinus Bouquet
BOUQUET, MARTIN. - Benedictine monk, b. at Amiens on 6 Aug. 1685, d. at Paris on 6 Apr. 1754. He entered the Congregation of St. Maur in 1707. Having become librarian of St-Germain-des-Prés, he was chosen to carry out the collection of the sources of the history of France. This task, for which Mabillon himself had considered himself incapable, was carried out, though not completely, by B. in a most valuable manner, although his opposition to the bull Unigenitus caused him to suffer a removal from Paris, where however he returned to the monastery of the « Blancs Manteaux » (1735), remaining there until his death.
From 1738 to 52 he brought out the first 8 volumes of the Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Vol. IX is posthumous (Paris 1757, ed. Delisle, ibid. 1859-80). The prefaces, the critical notes, the tables and the most accurate indexes are still very useful. The Recueil, which reaches only to the end of the kings of the second race, was continued by various other Maurists, and, after the dissolution of the congregation, by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. It consists of 24 volumes, of which the last was published in 1904.
Bibliography3 worksThe life of B. can be read in the preface to vol. IX of the Recueil: the history of the troubled project of the collection of the sources is
BIBL.: The life of B. can be read in the preface to vol. IX of the Recueil: the history of the troubled project of the collection of the sources is in the preface to vol. I of the Hist. Litt. de la Congrégation de St-Maur, Brussels 1770, pp. 694-99; J. Le Long, Bibliothèque Hist. de la France, III, Paris 1771, pp. XXXIV-XXXV; Hutter, IV, col. 1521.
Orazi, Ausenda Renata. “Bouquet, martin.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1982. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bouquet-martin.
MLA
Orazi, Ausenda Renata. “Bouquet, martin.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1982. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bouquet-martin.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_bouquet_martin,
author = {Orazi, Ausenda Renata},
title = {Bouquet, martin},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1982},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bouquet-martin}
}
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