LALLEMANT, JACQUES - PHILIPPE. - 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 defence of his Order, assailed on all sides, and to the struggle against Gallicanism and Jansenism.
Among the series of 31 published works, most of them anonymous or pseudonymous, the following should be noted, also because of their wide circulation: 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 Quesnel’s anonymous work (12 vols., ibid. 1713-25), in which Fathers Bouhours, Languedoc, and Michel also collaborated. This first edition sold out and was exhausted within three months, because the Jansenists hastened to buy it up in order to remove it from circulation. A new edition was produced by Feller (5 vols., Liège 1793), and there were other editions, though partial ones, as well as various translations. L. was 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 had many editions and versions.