CRÉTINEAU-JOLY, JACQUES. - Catholic historian and publicist, b. 23 Sept. 1803 at Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée), d. at Vincennes on 1 Jan. 1875. Founder of the Vendéen and contributor to other legitimist newspapers, an elegant and effective polemicist, he wrote some forty volumes, chiefly historical: still useful for their wealth of information.
Among these, particular sensation was aroused by the Histoire religieuse, politique et littéraire de la Compagnie de Jésus, composées sur les documents inédits et authentiques (6 vols., Paris 1844-46), aimed at unmasking the sectarian hatred unleashed in France against the Company in 1843. Fr. G. Roothaan, general of the Company, facilitated C.-J.'s work in every way, placing at his disposal not only the documents of the general curia in Rome, but also those of the Company in other countries of Europe. After the history of the Company, the author returned to the subject in order to treat more extensively the papacy of Clement XIV and this Pope's relations with the Jesuits, and the volume Clément XIV et les Jésuites (Paris 1847) came out of it, arousing lively controversies. In 1864 he published the memoirs of Card. E. Consalvi (Mémoires du card. Consalvi, secrétaire d'État du pape Pie VII, ibid. 1864). Among the other works we recall: Histoire de la Vendée militaire (ibid. 1841); Histoire du Sonderbund (ibid. 1850); L'Église romaine en face de la révolution (ibid. 1859); Histoire de Louis Philippe et de l'oriéanisme (ibid. 1863); Bonnaparte, le Concordat de 1801 et le card. Consalvi (ibid. 1869).
Bibliography3 worksM. U. Maynard, J. C.-J., sa vie politique, religieuse et littéraire, d'après ses mémoires, sa correspondance et autres documents inédits, Pa
BIBL.: M. U. Maynard, J. C.-J., sa vie politique, religieuse et littéraire, d'après ses mémoires, sa correspondance et autres documents inédits, Paris 1875; J. Burnichon, La Compagnie de Jésus en France, II, ibid. 1916, p. 449 ff.; P. Pirri, P. Giovanni Roothaan XXI generale della Compagnia di Gesù, Isola del Liri 1930, p. 368 ff.
Furlani, Silvio. “Crétineau-Joly, jacques.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 871–872. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/cretineau-joly-jacques.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “Crétineau-Joly, jacques.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 871–872. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cretineau-joly-jacques.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_cretineau_joly_jacques,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {Crétineau-Joly, jacques},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {871--872},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cretineau-joly-jacques}
}
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