Fabio Brulart de Sillery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fabio Brulart de Sillery

Roman Catholic bishop

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1655

Place of Birth: Touraine, France

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1714

Profession: writer, Catholic priest, classical scholar

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Fabio Brulart de Sillery

  • Fabio Brulart de Sillery (25 October 1655, château de Pressigny – 20 November 1714, Paris) was a French churchman, bishop of Avranches and bishop of Soissons.Great grandson of Henri de Montmorency and godson of Pope Alexander VII to whom he owes his Italian surname, he studied ancient Greek and Hebrew and received the title of doctor aged only 26.
  • DĂ©putĂ© to the assembly of the clergy in 1685, he became bishop of Avranches in 1689, then of Soissons from 1692 to 1714.
  • A member of the AcadĂ©mie de Soissons, he was elected a member of the AcadĂ©mie des inscriptions in 1701, then of the AcadĂ©mie française in 1705. Only a few of Fabio Brulart de Sillery's writings survive, including some poems and dissertations, a harangue against James II of England, a catechism, and some other texts published by François Lamy in 1700 with some by Antoine Arnauld and Dominique Bouhours under the title RĂ©flexions sur l'Ă©loquence.

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