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GERBERON, GABRIEL (1628-1711)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 766 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GERBERON, GABRIEL (1628-1711) , French Jansenist monk, was born on the 12th of August 1628 at St Calais, in the department of Sarthe. At the age of twenty he took the vows of the
Benedictine
  order at the abbey of Ste Melaine,
Rennes
 , and after-wards taught rhetoric and philosophy in several monasteries. His open advocacy of Jansenist opinions, however, caused his superiors to relegate him to the most obscure houses of the order, and finally to keep him under surveillance at the abbey of St Germain-des-Pres at Paris. Here he wrote a defence of the doctrine of the Real Presence against the Calvinists in the form of an apology for Rupert, abbot of Deutz (Apologia pro Ruperto abbate Tuitensi, Paris, 1669). In 1676 he published at Brussels, under the name of " Sieur Flore de Ste Foi " his Miroir de la piete chretienne, an enlarged edition of which appeared at Liege in the following year. This was condemned by certain arch-bishops and, theologians as the repetition of the five condemned propositions of
Jansen
 , and Gerberon defended it, under the name of " Abbe Valentin " in Le Miroir sans tache (Paris, 168o). He had by this time aroused against him the full fury of the
Jesuits
 , and at their instigation a royal provost was sent to
Corbie
  to arrest him. He had, however, just time to escape, and fled to the Low Countries, where he lived in various towns. He was invited by the Jansenist clergy to Holland, where he wrote another controversial
work
  against the Protestants: Defense de l'Eglise Remain contre la calomnie des Protestants (Cologne, 1688-1691). This produced unpleasantness with the Reformed clergy, and feeling himself no longer safe he returned to Brussels. In 1700 he published his history of
Jansenism
  (Histoire generale du Jansenisme), a dry
work
 , by which, however, he is best remembered. He adhered firmly to the Augustinian doctrine of Predestination, and on the 3oth of May 1703 he was arrested at Brussels at the instance of the archbishop of Malines, and ordered to subscribe the condemnation of the five sentences of
Jansen
 . On his refusal, he was handed over to his superiors and imprisoned in the citadel of Amiens and afterwards at Vincennes. Every sort of pressure was brought to
bear
  upon him to make his submission, and at last, broken in health and spirit, he consented to sign a
formula
  which the cardinal de Noailles claimed as a recantation. Upon this he was released in 1710. The first use he made of his freedom was to write a work (which, however, his friends prudently prevented him from publishing), Le Vaine Triomphe du cardinal de Noailles, containing a virtual withdrawal of the compulsory recantation. He died at the abbey of St Denis on the 29th of
March
  1711.


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