SAINT-AMOUR, LOUIS-GORIN de. — Jurist, b. in Paris on 27 Oct. 1619, d. at St-Denis on 14 Nov. 1687. Professor and later rector of the Sorbonne, noted for his anti-Quisling polemics and for his defence of the five propositions extracted from Jansenius’s Augustinus and condemned by the Holy See.
His most famous publication is: 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); yet this Journal is believed to contain only his annotations, the main drafting being the work of Antoine Arnauld and Isaac Le Maître de Sacry. He had indeed been entrusted with a mission to Rome to secure the revision of the condemnation of the five propositions by Innocent X, but without success. He also published: Mémoires apologétiques pour l'Université de Paris contre l'entreprise de quelques Hibernois (s.l. 1651). To him is also attributed the composition of the “chamiliards.” A friend of Arnauld, whose condemnation he refused to sign, he was excluded from the Sorbonne and then condemned by decree of 28 May 1664. He fostered the Jansenist movement in its early stages more by the authority deriving from his position as rector of the University of Paris than by the intrinsic worth of his intellectual contribution.