Martin Bouquet

Dom Martin Bouquet ( born August 6 1685 in Amiens, † April 6, 1754 in Paris) was a French cleric and historian. His main work Rerum gallicarum et francicarum Scriptores ( Recueil des Historiens the Gauls et de la France ) is a collection of works Gallic and westfrankischer historians until the year 987

Life

1706 put bouquet in the Benedictine monastery of Saint- Faron at Meaux the vows. Shortly after his ordination he was sent as a librarian in the monastery of Saint- Germain -des- Prés in Paris, whose collection at the time consisted of 60,000 books and 8,000 manuscripts. With his knowledge of the Greek language, he supported Bernard de Montfaucon in the publication of the works of John Chrysostom. He even worked out a new edition of the Jewish historian Flavius ​​Josephus and was already well advanced when he learned that the Dutch Siwart Haverkamp pursued the same goal. Bouquet left then Haverkamp be material that this fitted in with its output. Bouquets main achievement consists in the publication of the collection Rerum gallicarum et francicarum Scriptores. In 1729 he had completed the first two volumes when he and some other monks from Saint- Germain have been banished to the monastery of Saint -Jean in Laon, after they had refused to submit to the papal bull Unigenitus. 1735, he was allowed to return only after Argenteuil, then into the Blancs - manteaux in Paris, from where the monastery he could better monitor the progress of his project. Between 1738 and 1752, he released the first eight volumes of the now grown to 24 volumes work.