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Name
  
Henri Griffet

Died
  
1771, Brussels, Belgium

Role
  
Writer

Books
  
Meditations for Every Day in the Year on the Principal Duties of Christianity

Henri Griffet (1698–1771) was a leading Jesuit writer. He was born at Moulins and educated at the College of Louis le Grand in Paris where he assisted Charles Poree in his belle-lettres lectures.

He became preacher to the king, and retired to Brussels after abolition of the order. [1] He died in Brussels.

Publications

  • 1756: Gabriel Daniel's 17-vol Histoire de France depuis l'etablissement de la monarchie francaise (first complete edition, 1713), which was republished in 1720, 1721, 1725, 1742, and (the last edition, with notes by Henri Griffet) 1755–1760. Daniel published an abridgment in 1724 (English trans., 1726), and another abridgment was published by Dorival in 1751.
  • 1758 (Paris:: Histoire du regne de Louis XIII, roi de France et de Navarre)
  • Liege 1767 (ed. with Henri Charles de La Tremoille): Memoires de Henri-Charles de la Tremoille, prince de Tarente
  • 1770 (Liege): A treatise on the different kinds of proof employed in establishing historical facts (Traite des differentes sortes de preuves qui servent a etablir la verite historique)
  • Sermons, and other works of Piety
  • an edition of Memoirs of Profane History by d'Avrigny

    • References

    Henri Griffet Wikipedia
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