Claude Fleury

Claude Fleury (December 6, 1640 Paris, † July 14, 1723 in Paris) was a French pedagogue and church historian.

Fleury attended the Lycée Louis -le- Grand and entered Parliament in 1658 as a lawyer, but since 1667 studied theology and became in 1672 teacher of the young prince of Conti, then Louis XIV 's son, the Count of Vermandois, and finally in 1689 the second Hofmeister Prince of Burgundy, Anjou and Berry. Louis XV. appointed him his confessor.

His retracted lives because they called it the hermit at court.

Works

His main work is the Church's history: Histoire ecclésiastique (Paris 1691-1720, 20 vols ) which reached to 1414 and by Jean Claude Fabre (Brussels 1726-40, 16 vols ) and Alexandre Lacroix to 1778 (Paris 1776-87, 6 vols ) was continued, though not in Fleury's mind. Among his other writings are particularly noteworthy:

• Histoire du droit français ( Paris 1674, new ed 1826) and
• Catéchisme historique (Paris 1679; newly edited by Laboulaye and Dareste, 1858, 2 vols. ). The former of these works represents one of the most determined manifestos of the Episcopalian and Gallican; with the second Fleury has become the precursor of the biblical teaching of history -based religious education of modern times. Even as a historical theological draft Catéchisme historique is significant.