Michel Tronchay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michel Tronchay

French theologian

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1703

Profession: theologian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Michel Tronchay (October 1668 – 30 October 1733) was a French Catholic priest, writer, philosopher, and the secretary of French historian Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont.
After Tillemont's death, Tronchay completed and published volumes 6–16 of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique des six premiers siècles, a history of the first six-centuries of the Christian church.
He also completed and published the final volume 6 of Histoire des empereurs et autres princes qui ont régné pendant les six premiers siècles de l'Église, a history of the Roman Empire.
This work was often cited by Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Tronchay published a biography of Tillemont in 1706, Idee de la vie et de T esprit de M.
L.
de Tillemont, and a history of Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey titled Histoire abrégée de l'abbaye de PortRoyal.Tronchay was born in Mayenne in October 1668.
He died on 30 October 1733.