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See also:RANCE, ARMAND See also:JEAN LE See also:BOUTHILLIER DE (1626-1700) , founder of the Trappist See also:Cistercians. He was See also:born in See also:Paris of a See also:noble and influential See also:family of See also:Normandy; hence, being destined to the ecclesiastical See also:state, he was when ten years old commendatory See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of La Trappe and two other abbeys, See also:prior of two priories, and See also:canon of Nbtre See also:Dame, Paris. At twelve he published a See also:translation of See also:Anacreon. He went through his course of theological studies with See also:great distinction, defeating See also:Bossuet at the Baccalaureat in See also:theology. He was ordained in 1651, and embarked on the ambitious and worldly career of a See also:court See also:abbe in the days of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. But after a few years he underwent a See also:complete See also:change of See also:life, and in 1662 he retired to his See also:abbey of La Trappe, of which he became See also:regular abbot in 1664 and introduced an austere reform (see See also:TRAPPISTS). The best known See also:episode of his subsequent life was the " Contestation " with See also:Mabillon on the lawfulness of monks devoting themselves to study, which De Rance denied. He resigned his abbacy in 1695, owing to declining See also:health, and died in 1700.
The best of the See also:early lives is that of P. le Nain, his sub-prior (1715) ; the most See also:recent is by M. Serrant, L'Abbe de Rance et Bossuet (19o3). A sufficient See also:sketch is given by See also:Helyot, Histoire See also:des ordres religieux (1718), vi. c. 1. On the " Contestation " on Monastic Studies, see See also:Maitland, Dark Ages, § x. (E. C.
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