- Fabio Brulart de Sillery
Fabio Brulart de Sillery (
25 October 1655 , château de Pressigny -20 November 1714 ,Paris ) was a French churchman,bishop of Avranches andbishop 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. Député 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 theAcadémie de Soissons , he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions in 1701, then of theAcadémie française 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 , acatechism , and some other texts published byFrançois Lamy in 1700 with some by Antoine Arnauld andDominique Bouhours under the title "Réflexions sur l'éloquence".External links
*fr icon [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=135 Biography on the Académie française site]
* [http://www.cocreative.co.uk/jacquis%20homepages/Genealogy/Sillery/Family%20Chronology1600%20-%201699.htm Genealogy of the Sillery family]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.