Antoine Touron
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Antoine Touron was a French Dominican
biographer and historian.
He was born at Graulhet
, Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (Toulouse
); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and apologetics
. He died at Paris.
He wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. Père Mortier, in his Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, made generous use of his Histoire des hommes illustres....
Touron's writings include:
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...
biographer and historian.
He was born at Graulhet
Graulhet
Graulhet is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.It is a centre of tanning. Leather was the main activity before industry went to China. Graulhet is crossed by the Dadou river; it is a typical village of the South of France, also called Midi....
, Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and apologetics
Apologetics
Apologetics is the discipline of defending a position through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers...
. He died at Paris.
He wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. Père Mortier, in his Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, made generous use of his Histoire des hommes illustres....
Touron's writings include:
- "Vie de saint Thomas d'Aquin" (considered his best work)
- "Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples"
- "Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique"
- "De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor."
- "La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites", a work in which he shows that as often as the Chosen People proved false to their Divine vocation, they were punished by God
- "Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle"
- "La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée"
- "La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas"
- "Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte", an ecclesiastical history of the New World.