PARISOT, Pierre Curel (Father Norbert, Abbé Platel). - Writer, b. at Bar-le-Duc (Lorraine) in 1697, d. at Commercy (Lorraine) on 7 July 1769. A Capuchin in 1716, in 1736 he was appointed procurator general of the French Foreign Missions.

Having clashed with the Jesuits over the question of the Malabar rites, he returned from Pondichéry to Rome (1741). He published Mémoire istoriche intorno alle missioni dell'India orientale, (2 vols., Lucca 1744: placed on the Index by Benedict XIV on 1 April 1745), which he later recast in Mémoires historiques sur les affaires des Jésuites avec le St-Siège (7 vols., Lisbon 1766). Restless, he took to wandering through Holland, England, Germany and Portugal, where he supported Pombal's anti-Jesuit policy. In 1759 he obtained the decree of secularization and assumed the pseudonyms mentioned above. In 1763 he returned to France. He also wrote: Diurnal chrétien (Marseille 1742); Lettres apologétiques (Lucca 1746); Histoires du passage du p. Norbert à l'état de prêtre séculaire (s. l. 1759); La foi des catholiques (Lisbon 1761).

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BIBL.: P. A. Kirsch, Zur Geschichte des P. Norbert, in Theologische Quartalschrift, 86 (1904), pp. 364-76; Pastor, XVI, pp. 349-54; E. Amann, s. v. in DThC, XI, coll. 2040-43; K. Hofmann, s. v. in LThK, VII, col. 980.

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Parisot, Pierre Curel (Father Norbert, Abbé Platel)

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