Jacques Bouillart

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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 It also contains many illustrations and detailed descriptions of architecture, art and historical documents.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.

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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)
"Jacques Bouillart". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.