Background
Louis Maimbourg was born on January 10, 1610, at Nancy, France.
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Louis Maimbourg was born on January 10, 1610, at Nancy, France.
Louis Maimbourg studied theology at Rome.
After studying at Rome he became a classical master in the Jesuit college at Rouen.
Late in his life he began to publish historical works, the most famous being his Traité historique de l’établissement et des prérogatives de l’église de Rome et de ses évêques (1685; “Historical Treatise on the Establishment and the Prerogatives of the Church of Rome and its Bishops”), in which his defense of Gallican church liberties greatly displeased Pope Innocent XI, who ordered his expulsion from the Jesuit order. Pensioned by King Louis XIV of France, Maimbourg retired to the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris, where he remained until his death.
Maimbourg was a voluminous writer, and his collected Histoires (1686–87) include 26 volumes. Among the best known of his other works are the Histoire du Luthéranisme (1680; “History of Lutheranism”) and the Histoire du Calvinisme (1682; “History of Calvinism”), both of them conventional Catholic polemics against Protestantism. Despite their emotional and inexact style, Maimbourg’s works popularized the religious controversy and were useful to the French government as propaganda for the revocation of King Henry IV’s Edict of Nantes (1598), which had provided religious freedom to French Protestants.
Louis Maimbourg died on August 13, 1686.
Louis Maimbourg was a well-noted historian who wrote critical works on Calvinism and Lutheranism and a defense of Gallican liberties—the belief that the Roman Catholic church in France should maintain some independence from papal control.
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Louis Maimbourg was a member of the Jesuit order.
