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BAILLET, ADRIEN (1649-1706)

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BAILLET, ADRIEN (1649-1706) , See also:French See also:scholar and critic, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:June 1649, at the See also:village of See also:Neuville near See also:Beauvais, in See also:Picardy. His parents could only afford to send him to a small school in the village, but he picked up some Latin from the friars of a neighbouring See also:convent, who brought him under the See also:notice of the See also:bishop of Beauvais. By his kindness Baillet received a thorough See also:education at the theological See also:seminary, and was afterwards appointed to a See also:post as teacher in the See also:college of Beauvais. In 1676 he was ordained See also:priest and was presented to a small vicarage. He accepted in 168o the See also:appointment of librarian to M. de See also:Lamoignon, See also:advocate-See also:general to the See also:parlement of See also:Paris, of whose library he made a See also:catalogue raisonne (35 vols.), all written with his own See also:hand. The See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in incessant, unremitting labour; so keen was his devotion to study that he allowed himself only five See also:hours a See also:day for See also:rest. He died on the 21st of See also:January 1706. Of his numerous See also:works the following are the most conspicuous: (1) Histoire de Hollande depuis la treve de 16o9 jusqu'd 1690 (4 vols. 1693), a continuation of See also:Grotius, and published under the name of La Neuville, (2) See also:Les Vies See also:des See also:saints ... (4 vols. 1701), (3) Des Satires personelles, traits historique et critique de celles qui portent le titre d' See also:Anti (2 vols. 1689), (4) See also:Vie de See also:Descartes (2 vols.1691),(5) A uteurs deguises sous des noms strangers, empruntes, erc.

(169o), (6) Jugemens des savans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs (9 vols. 1685–1686). The last is the most celebrated and useful of all his works. At the See also:

time of his See also:death he was engaged on a Dictionnaire universelle ecclesiastique. The praise bestowed on the Jansenists in the Jugemens des savans brought down on Baillet the hatred of the See also:Jesuits, and his Vie des saints, in which he brought his See also:critical mind to See also:bear on the question of miracles, caused some See also:scandal. His Vie de Descartes is219 a mine of See also:information on the philosopher and his See also:work, derived from numerous unimpeachable authorities. See the edition by M. de la Monnoye of the Jugemens des savans (See also:Amsterdam, 4. vols. 1725), which contains the Anti-Baillet of Gilles See also:Menage and an Abrege de la vie de Mr Baillet.

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