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Clémencet, Charles

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CLÉMENCET, CHARLES. - Maurist Benedictine, b. at Painblanc in 1703, d. 4 April 1778 in Paris.

He collaborated on the Histoire littér. de la France (vols. X and XI), completed the work of Dom Maur Dantine (or D'Antine), L'art de vérifier les dates (2 vols., Paris 1750), and wrote a Histoire génère. de Port Royal depuis la réforme de l'abbaye jusqu'à son entière destruction (10 vols., Amsterdam 1755-57). He was the editor, with the help of his confreres, of the works of St. Gregory of Nazianzus (Paris 1778; reproduced in PG 20 and 21). He left numerous minor writings. He was a Jansenist sympathizer.

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BIBL.: R. P. Tassin, Hist. littér. de la Congrég. de St-Maur. Bruxelles 1770, p. 636 f.; Ch. de Lama, Biblioth. des écrivains de la Congrég. de St-Maur, Friburgo in Br. 1882, p. 196 f.; B. Jungmann, s. v. in Kirchenlex., III (1884), coll. 447-49; Hurter, V (1912), coll. 125-28.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 1806.

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Benedetto Gioia. “Clémencet, charles.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1806. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/clemencet-charles.

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Benedetto Gioia. “Clémencet, charles.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1806. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/clemencet-charles.

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  author    = {Benedetto Gioia},
  title     = {Clémencet, charles},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {1806},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/clemencet-charles}
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