Antoine Touron
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Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French Dominican biographer and historian.
He was born at Graulhet, Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (Toulouse); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and apologetics. He died at Paris.
He wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. , in his Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, made generous use of his Histoire des hommes illustres....
Touron's writings include:
- "Vie de saint Thomas d'Aquin" (considered his best work)
- "Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples"
- "Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique"
- "De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor."
- "La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites", a work in which he shows that as often as the Chosen People proved false to their Divine vocation, they were punished by God
- "Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle"
- "La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée"
- "La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas"
- "Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte", an ecclesiastical history of the New World.
References[]
- Antonin Mortier (1903–1911). Hist. des maîtres gén. de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs (in French). 5 vols. Paris.
- Hugo von Hurter (1895). Nomenclator literarius. III. Innsbruck. pp. 164–5.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Antoine Touron". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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- 1686 births
- 1775 deaths
- French Dominicans
- French historians
- French male non-fiction writers