Name Henri de Parents Germain Louis Chauvelin | Died 1770 | |
Henri Philippe de Chauvelin (1714–1770) was a French cleric and politician. He was a canon of Notre Dame de Paris and a councillor to the parlement de Paris. Known as the Abbe de Chauvelin, he was the youngest son of Germain Louis Chauvelin and thus a brother of marquis Francois Claude Chauvelin.
He ardently attacked the Society of Jesus and defended Jansenism, leading to his imprisonment on mont Saint-Michel in 1763. When he was released, he continued to struggle against the Jesuits and in 1761 published two works which had a major impact - Discours sur les constitutions des Jesuites and Compte rendu sur la doctrine des Jesuites.
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