Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

TILLEMONT

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 976 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

TILLEMONT , S$BASTIEN LE NAIN DE (1637-1698), See also:

French ecclesiastical historian, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 3oth of See also:November 1637. His See also:father, a wealthy member of the legal class, being a devoted Jansenist, the boy was brought up in the little See also:schools of See also:Port Royal. Here his See also:bent towards See also:historical study was warmly encouraged, and in 166o he was made a See also:tutor in the See also:seminary of Buzenval, Jansenist See also:bishop of -See also:Beauvais. Ten years later he came back to Paris, and was eventually persuaded (1676) to enter the priesthood, and become a See also:chaplain at Port Royal. In 1679 the See also:storm of persecution drove him to See also:settle on his See also:family See also:estate of Tillemont, between See also:Montreuil and See also:Vincennes. There he spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life, dying on the loth of See also:January 1698. He was buried at Port Royal; in 1711, on the desecration of the See also:cemetery, his remains were transferred From the See also:age of twenty he was at See also:work on his two See also:great books—the Memoires pour servir d l'histoire ecclesiastique See also:des six premiers siecles, and the Histoire des empereurs during the same See also:period. Both See also:works began to appear during his lifetime—the Histoire in 169o, the Memoires in 1693—but in neither See also:case was the publication many of their designs were produced by such famous architects as See also:Pugin, See also:Gilbert See also:Scott,. See also:Street, &c., so that between 185o and 188o encaustic tiles had a great See also:vogue for See also:pavement work not only in See also:England, but in all civilized countries, and See also:fine examples of the See also:rich encaustic pavements made at Mintons', Maw's, or See also:Godwin's of See also:Hereford, are to be found in most of the restored cathedrals and churches of this period. See also:Side by side with the revival of this See also:ancient See also:process, there was See also:developed an essentially See also:modern process of manufacturing by compressing pulverized See also:clay in See also:metal See also:dies under a See also:screw See also:press. This was the outgrowth of a patent granted to See also:Richard Prosser in 184o, and worked out and perfected at the works of Minton at Stoke-upon-See also:Trent. The advantages of this method of manufacture consist in (a) greater rapidity in See also:execution than can be effected by the plastic method, and (b) the greater See also:mechanical accuracy of the finished See also:tile due to the See also:steel dies used in shaping the tile and to the diminished contraction in drying and firing: This essentially modern method of tile-making is really an out-come of the methods introduced in the manufacture of See also:English earthenware (see See also:CERAMICS), and it has not only been extensively developed in England, but has been adopted, practically without modification, in all the leading countries of See also:Europe and in the to the See also:church of St See also:Andre des Arcs in Paris.

finished till See also:

long after his See also:death. To his modesty See also:Bossuet bears See also:witness, when he told him to stand up sometimes, and not be always on his knees before a critic. See also:Gibbon vouches for his learning, when (in the 47th See also:chapter) he speaks of "this incomparable See also:guide, whose bigotry is overbalanced by the merits of erudition, See also:diligence, veracity and scrupulous minuteness." There is a full See also:account of his life in the 4th See also:volume of Sainte-Beuve's Port Royal.

End of Article: TILLEMONT

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
TILE WAR IN ITALY 		[next]
TILLEY, SIR SAMUEL LEONARD (1818-1896)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries