Louis Richeome

Louis Richeome (1544–1625) was a French Jesuit theologian and controversialist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Ludovicus de Beaumanoir", "Felix de la Grace", and "Franciscus Montanus".

Life

Richeome was born in Digne in 1544. He studied at the Collège de Clermont under Juan Maldonado and in 1565 joined the Society of Jesus.[1] In 1580 he was appointed principal of the student residence at the university of Pont-à-Mousson.[2] He was instrumental in the Jesuit residence in Bordeaux being allowed to reopen its college in 1603.[3] In 1605 he was appointed Father Provincial of the Lyon Province, and from 1608 to 1616 was in Rome as assistant to Superior General Claudio Acquaviva.[4] Richeome died in Bordeaux on 15 September 1625.

Publications

References

  1. Henri Brémond, Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France, depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours, vol. 1, L'humanisme dévot, 1580-1660 (Pris, 1924), ch. 2.
  2. Mark Edward Motley, Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 (Princeton University Press, 1990), p. 111.
  3. Anthony D. Wright, The Divisions of French Catholicism (Routledge, 2016), p. 92.
  4. Eric Nelson, The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France, 1590-1615 (Ashgate, 2005), p. 120-121.

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