Beda wrote, l.“A treatise” De unica Magdalena, Paris," 1519, 4to, against the publications of Faber Stapulensis. 2. Twelve books against the Commentary of Faber. 3. One against
, a French divine of the sixteenth century,
principal of the college of Montaigu in 1507, and syndic
of the faculty of theology at Paris, was born in Picardy.
He published a violent attack on the paraphrases of Erasmus. That illustrious scholar condescended to take the
trouble to refute it with great minuteness, averring that he
had convicted his censurer of having advanced 181 lies,
210 calumnies, and 47 blasphemies. The doctor, having
no reasonable answer to make, took extracts from the works
of Erasmus, denounced him as a heretic to the faculty, and
succeeded in getting him censured. It was he who prevented the Soroonne from deciding in favour of the divorce
of Henry VIII. of England, an opinion not discreditable to
him, although he is said to have carried it by his vehemence. “As Beda (says pere Berthier) could neither
bridle his pen nor his tongue, he dared to preach against
the king himself, under pretext, perhaps, that the court
did not prosecute heretics with as much vigour as his bold
and extravagant temper would have wished. His intolerant
spirit drew upon him twice successively a sentence of banishment. Recalled for the third time, and continuing
incorrigible, he was condemned by the parliament of Paris,
in 1536, to make the amende-honorable before the church
of Notre-Dame, for having spoken against the king, and
against truth.
” He was afterwards ex led to the abbey of
Mont St. Michel, where he died Feb. 8, 15^7, with the
reputation (adds pere Berthier) of being a violent declaimer
and a vexatious adversary. Beda wrote, l.“A treatise
” De unica Magdalena, Paris," 1519, 4to, against the
publications of Faber Stapulensis. 2. Twelve books against
the Commentary of Faber. 3. One against the Paraphrases
of Erasmus, 1526, folio; and several other works, which
are all marked with barbarism and rancour. His Latin is
neither pure nor correct. Henry Stephens has preserved
a circumstance of him, which sufficiently marks his character. He undertook to dissuade Francis I. from employing
professors of languages in the university of Paris, and maintained before that prince, in the presence of Budaeus, that
the Greek tongue was the cause of heresies.
, or Jacobus Fabku, Stapulensis, a man of genius and learning, was born at Estaples, in Picardy,
, or Jacobus Fabku, Stapulensis, a man of genius and learning, was born at Estaples, in Picardy, about 1440; and was one of those who contributed to revive polite literature in the university of Paris. He became, however, suspected of Lutheranism, and was obliged to give way to the outrage of certain ignorant zealots, who suffered him not to rest. He then retired from Paris to Meaux, where the bishop was William Briconnet, a lover of the sciences and learned men; but the persecution raised by the Franciscans at Meaux obliging the bishop, against his inclination, to desert Faber, the latter was forced to retire to Blois, and from thence to Guienne. Margaret queen of Navarre, sister to Francis I. honoured him with her protection, so that he enjoyed full liberty at Nerac till his death, which happened in 1537, when he was little short of a hundred.