Name Fabio de | Died November 20, 1714 | |
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Fabio Brulart de Sillery (25 October 1655, chateau de Pressigny – 20 November 1714, Paris) was a French churchman, bishop of Avranches and bishop of Soissons.
Great grandson of Henri de Montmorency and godson of Pope Alexander VII to whom he owes his Italian surname, he studied ancient Greek and Hebrew and received the title of doctor aged only 26. Depute to the assembly of the clergy in 1685, he became bishop of Avranches in 1689, then of Soissons from 1692 to 1714. A member of the Academie de Soissons, he was elected a member of the Academie des inscriptions in 1701, then of the Academie francaise in 1705.
Only a few of Fabio Brulart de Sillery's writings survive, including some poems and dissertations, a harangue against James II of England, a catechism, and some other texts published by Francois Lamy in 1700 with some by Antoine Arnauld and Dominique Bouhours under the title Reflexions sur l'eloquence.