SAINT-AMOUR, LOUIE-GORIS de. - Jansenist, born in Paris on 27 Oct. 1619, died at St-Denis on 14 Nov. 1687. Professor and later rector of the Sorbonne, he was known for his anti-Jesuit polemics and for his defence of the five propositions extracted from Giansenio’s Augustinus and condemned by the Holy See.
One of his publications is famous: Journal de m. L.-G. de St-A., docteur de Sorbonne, de ce qui s'est fait à Rome, dans l'affaire des cinq propositions (2 vols., Holland 1662; placed on the Index, decree of 28 March 1664); but it is believed that only the annotations in this Journal are his, while its composition is for the most part attributable to Antoine Arnauld and Isaac Le Maître de Sacy. He had in fact been charged with going to Rome to obtain a revision of Innocenzo X’s condemnation of the five propositions; but he was unsuccessful. He also published: Mémoires apologétiques pour l'Université de Paris contre l'entreprise de quelques Hibernois (s. l. 1651). The composition of the « chamillards » is likewise attributed to him. A friend of Arnauld, whose condemnation he refused to endorse, he was excluded from the Sorbonne and subsequently himself condemned by a decree of 28 May 1664. He furthered the Jansenist movement in its earliest beginnings more through the authority deriving from his position as rector of the University of Paris than through the intrinsic worth of his intellectual contribution.