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Antoine Touron

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Name
  
Antoine Touron

Role
  
Biographer

Died
  
September 2, 1775, Paris, France

Books
  
Opening Chapter of American Missionary History: Life of Bartholomew de Las Casas, of the Order of St. Dominic, Protector-general of the Indians and First Bishop of Chiapa in Mexico

Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French Dominican biographer and historian.

He was born at Graulhet, Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (Toulouse); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and apologetics. He died at Paris.

He wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. Pere Mortier, in his Histoire des maitres generaux de l'ordre des freres precheurs, made generous use of his Histoire des hommes illustres....

Touron's writings include:

  • "Vie de saint Thomas d'Aquin" (considered his best work)
  • "Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abregee des ses premiers disciples"
  • "Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique"
  • "De la providence, traite hist., dogmat. et mor."
  • "La main de Dieu sur les incredules, ou hist. abregee des Israelites", a work in which he shows that as often as the Chosen People proved false to their Divine vocation, they were punished by God
  • "Parallele de l'incredule et du vrai fidele"
  • "La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromee"
  • "La verite vengee en faveur de saint Thomas"
  • "Hist. generale de l'Amerique depuis sa decouverte", an ecclesiastical history of the New World.

    • References

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