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TILLEMONT , S$BASTIEN LE NAIN DE (1637-1698), French ecclesiastical historian, was born in Paris on the 3oth of November 1637. His father, a wealthy member of the legal class, being a devoted Jansenist, the boy was brought up in the little schools of Port Royal. Here his bent towards historical study was warmly encouraged, and in 166o he was made a tutor in the seminary of Buzenval, Jansenist bishop of -Beauvais. Ten years later he came back to Paris, and was eventually persuaded (1676) to enter the priesthood, and become a chaplain at Port Royal. In 1679 the storm
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