Jacques Bouillart

Jacques Bouillart (1669, Diocese of Chartres—December 11, 1726) was a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St.-Maur. He professed at the Monastery of St. Faron de Meaux in 1687. He was the author of "Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prés" (Paris, 1724). This valuable history of the celebrated Benedictine monastery contains biographies of the abbots that ruled over it, since its foundation by Childeric I in 543 and many important historical events relative to the famous abbey. It also contains many illustrations and detailed descriptions of architecture, art and historical documents. Bouillart also edited a martyrology of Usuard. In this publication he attempted to establish the genuineness and authenticity of the manuscript preserved at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, against the Jesuit hagiographer Père Jean-Baptiste Du Sollier (1669-1740), who in his revised edition of Usuard's martyrology had paid no attention to this manuscript.

References

*De Lama, "Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la congregation de Saint-Maur" (Munich and Paris, 1882), 128
*Magnoald Ziegelbauer, "Historia rei literariae ordinis S. Benedicti" (Augsburg and Wurzburg, 1754), IV, 558
*Hugo von Hurter, "Nomenclator" (Innsbruck, 1893), II, 1201
*Jean-Philippe Le Cerf, "Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la Congrégation de Saint-Maur" (The Hague 1726)
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