LALLEMANT, JACQUES. - Jesuit, theologian and writer, b. at St-Valéry-sur-Somme on 18 Sept. 1896, d. at Paris on 28 Aug. 1748. An editor of the Mémoires de Trévoux, he devoted his entire scholarly activity to the defense of his Order, assailed from all sides, and to the struggle against Gallicanism and Jansenism.
Of the series of 31 published works, most of them anonymous or pseudonymous, the following are worth remembering, also for the circulation they enjoyed: Le père Quesnel séditieux dans ses Réflexions (Brussels 1704); Jansenius condamné par l'Église (ibid. 1705); Le véritable esprit des nouveaux disciples de St Augustin (4 vols., ibid. 1705); but above all: Entretiens au sujet des affaires par rapport à la religion (9 vols., Paris 1713-25) and Réflexions morales avec des notes sur le Nouveau Testament traduit en français against the anonymous work of Quesnel (12 vols., ibid. 1713-25), in which the fathers Bouhours, Languedoc and Michel also collaborated. This first edition was snapped up and sold out in three months, because the Jansenists hastened to buy it up in order to take it out of circulation. Feller produced a new edition of it (5 vols., Liège 1793), and other editions appeared as well, but partial, along with various translations. L. is also the author of: Le sens propre et littéral des Pâumes de David (Paris 1708) and l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ, traduction nouvelle (ibid. 1740) with notes, which has gone through very many editions and versions.
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