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ARNAUD

Volume 1 · 135 words · 1778 Edition

(Anthony), brother of the preceding, and a doctor of the Sorbonne, was born in 1612. He published, in 1643, A Treatise on frequent Communion, which highly displeased the Jesuits; and the disputes upon grace, which broke out about this time in the university of Paris, and in which he took a zealous part with the Jansenists, helped to increase the animosity between him and the Jesuits. But nothing raised so great a clamour against him, as the two letters he wrote on Abjuration; in the second of which the faculty of divinity found two propositions which they condemned, and M. Arnaud was expelled the society. Upon this he retired; and during a retreat which lasted near 25 years, he composed that great variety of works which are extant of his, on grammar, geometry, logic, metaphysics,