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Latin: Ludovicus Sebastianus Le Nain de Tillemont
TILLEMONT, LOUIS-SÉBASTIEN LE NAIN DE. - French scholar and historian, b. in Paris on 30 Nov. 1637, d. there on 10 Jan. 1698. Educated in Paris in a Jansenist environment, he soon felt attracted to historical studies.
After long indecision, only in 1672 did he consent to receive the subdiaconate and four years later the priesthood. Settling again in Paris, in 1679 he was forced to flee together with the other "solitaries" of Port-Royal and withdrew to Tillemont (whence the name), in the surroundings of Paris. From here he made various journeys, among them one to Holland. In the last period of his life he returned once more to Paris.
He is remembered for the Histoire des empereurs et des autres princes qui ont regné durant les six premiers siècles de l'église (6 vols., Paris 1690-97 the first 4, the other two posthumous, 1701 and 1738; 2nd ed., inaccurate and incomplete, Brussels 1707-39; 3rd simultaneously at Venice and Brussels 1732 ff.), and the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique des six premiers siècles (16 vols., of which the last incomplete, Paris 1693-96 the first 4, the others posthumous from 1698 to 1712; 2nd ed. Venice 1732-39), conceived, it seems, as a single work, but then separated because of the impossibility of reconciling Christian history and profane history. T. reveals himself a scholar of vast erudition, but his is the patient work of a collector and "reconciler" of sources, to which he sometimes lends excessive credence and from which he departs only rarely to express thoughts and opinions, which he encloses in parentheses. With respect to Mabillon he has the advantage of a more systematic organization of the historical framework, although he makes use exclusively of literary sources. He also wrote a Vie de st Louis roi de France, left incomplete, continued by I. De Sacy and then by Filleau de la Chaise, published between 1847 and 1851. Other writings remained unpublished, and much of his work passed into the works of G. Hermant, of T. du Fossé, of Arnauld, of Lambert.
TILLEMONT, LOUIS-SÉBASTIEN, LE NAIN de - Portrait. Engraving promised to the Vie de M. Lenoise de T., Cologne 1711. Copy from the Vatican Library.(phot. Enc. Catt.)Bibliography5 worksin addition to the general works on Jansenism (v.), cf. M. Trouchay, Idée de la vie et de l'esprit de M. le Nain de T., Nancy 1706; id., Vie
BIBL.: in addition to the general works on Jansenism (v.), cf. M. Trouchay, Idée de la vie et de l'esprit de M. le Nain de T., Nancy 1706; id., Vie de L.-S. Le Nain de T., Cologne 1711; I. Neumann, Entwicklung und Aufgaben der alten Geschichte, Strasbourg 1910, p. 86 ff.; A. Momigliano, La formazione della moderna storiografia sull'Impero romano, in Riv. stor. it., 5th series, 1 (1936), pp. 38-44; E. Fueter, Storia della storiografia moderna, Italian trans., I. Naples 1943, pp. 376-77.
Pratesi, Alessandro. “Tillemont, louis-sébastien, le nain de.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, coll. 98–99. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/tillemont-louis-sebastien-le-nain-de.
MLA
Pratesi, Alessandro. “Tillemont, louis-sébastien, le nain de.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, coll. 98–99. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tillemont-louis-sebastien-le-nain-de.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_tillemont_louis_sebastien_le_n,
author = {Pratesi, Alessandro},
title = {Tillemont, louis-sébastien, le nain de},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {98--99},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/tillemont-louis-sebastien-le-nain-de}
}
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