, a learned and pious doctor of the Sorbonne, and a voluminous author,
, a learned and pious doctor of
the Sorbonne, and a voluminous author, was born at Beauvais in 1617, and displayed early propensities for learning. Potier bishop and earl of Beauvais sent him to the
various colleges of Paris for education. He obtained a
canonry of Beauvais, was rector of the university of Paris
in 1646, and died in 1690, after being excluded from his
canonry and the Sorbonne for some ecclesiastical dispute.
Hermant had the virtues and defects of a recluse student^
and was much esteemed for his talents and piety by Tillemont and others of the solitaries at Port Royal. His style
was noble and majestic, but sometimes rather inflated.
His works are numerous: 1. “Toe Life of St. Athanasius,
”
2 vols. 4to. 2. Those of “St. Basil and Gregory Nazianzen,
” of the same extent. 3. The Life of St. Chrysostom,“written under the name of Menan. And, 4. That of
” St. Ambrose,“both in 4to. 5. A translation, of some
tracts from St. Chrysostom. 6. Another from St. Basil.
7. Several polemical writings against the Jesuits, who
therefore became his mortal enemies, and contrived to
interfere with his monumental honours after death, by preventing the inscription of a very commendatory epitaph.
8.
” A Defence of the Church against Labadie.“9.
” Index Universalis totius juris Ecclesiastici,“folio. 10.
” Discours Chretien sur retablissement du Bureau des pauvres
de Beauvais," 1653. A life of him has been published by
Baillet.