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Antoine Le Maistre (2 May 1608 – 4 November 1658) was a French Jansenist lawyer, author and translator. His name has also been written as Lemaistre and Le Maître, and he sometimes used the pseudonym of Lamy.
Antoine Le Maistre, important figure in the Jansenist religious movement in France, a member of the Arnauld family.
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Antoine Le Maistre, ou Lemaistre, ou Le Maître, né le 2 mai 1608 et mort le 4 novembre 1658, est un janséniste français, avocat, puis pédagogue et homme de lettres. En 1639, il devient le premier Solitaire de Port-Royal des Champs.
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Isaac, spiritual director and writer, better known as Le Maistre de Saci (Sacy; anagrams of Isaac); b. Paris, March 29, 1613; d. Pomponne, Jan. 4, 1684. In 1637 he retired with his brother to Port-Royal. After his ordination in 1649, he became spiritual adviser to the other solitaires.
Portrait of Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, lord of Port-Royal, or of Antoine Le Maître, his elder brother, by the workshop of Philippe de Champaigne. The Bible de Port-Royal (" Port-Royal Bible"), or Bible de Sacy ("Sacy Bible"), is a French translation of the Catholic Bible done by Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy.
Antoine Le Maistre (1608–58), Catherine’s eldest son, abandoned worldly society and placed himself under the spiritual direction of Saint-Cyran. Thus guided, Le Maistre and several others—including two of his brothers—established the solitaires (“hermits”), a Jansenist ascetic group, at Port-Royal des Champs in about 1638.
Although Antoine Arnauld had used sophisticated legal arguments to insist that the Jansenists were free to read and study the Augustinus, the actions of the royal government and the papacy increasingly placed that work off limits during the 1650s. In 1657, Cardinal Mazarin, then France's chief minister, called an Assembly of the Clergy to ...
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