, brother of the preceding, having studied ethics with success, entered among the bare-footed Carmelites
, brother of the preceding, having studied ethics with success, entered among the
bare-footed Carmelites but, not finding this reform sufficiently austere to satisfy his excessive zeal, he took the
habit of la Trappe 1695, and insinuated himself so much
into the favour of the celebrated abbé de Raneé, as to be
appointed abbot of la Trappe on the death of Dom. Zozime 1696. The abbé, however, soon repented of his
choice; for the new abbot began immediately to raise oni r
mosities, and foment divisions among the monks, endeavouring to set them against de Raneé, and to undo all that
this reformer had done; but the abbé engaged hiip artfully
to resign, and got his resignation approved by the king.
Grvaise, finding himself deprived of his abbey, left la
Trappe, and drew up a long “Apology.
” He frequently
changed his place of abode afterwards, always living, however, according to the rules of la Trappe; but, when the
first volume of his “Hist, generate de Citeaux,
” 4to, appeared, the Bernardines, who were violently attacked in,
that work, obtained an order from the court against him,
and he was arrested at Paris, conducted to the abbey of
Notre-Dame de Reclus, where he was confined, and died
there in 1755. Besides his “Apology,
” and his “Hist,
de la reforme de Citeaux,
” which is very scarce, he left
“La Vie de St. Cyprien,
” with dissertations, 4to “La
Vie d‘Abailard et d’Heloise,
” 2 vols. 12mo; “Lettres d'Abailard à Heloise,
” 2 vols. 12mo. This is a very
paraphrastical translation. “Hist, de l'Abbé Suger,
”
3 vols. 12mo “La Vie de St. Irenee,
” 2 vols. 12mo “La
Vie de Rufin,
” 2 vols. 12mo; “La Vie de l'Apotre St.
Paul,
” 3 vols. 12mo; “La Vie de St. Paulin,
” with dissertations, 4to; two Letters on the Anglicau Ordinations,
against P. Courayer; “Hist, de l'Abbé Joachim,
” 2 vols.
12mo “La Vie de St. Epiphane,
” 4to, &c. He also left
in ms. “Traite des devoirs des Evques
” an abridgement of M. de Fleury’s Ecclesiastical History; and other
pieces. This author’s disposition may be discovered in all
his works; violent, fickle, and inconstant. In general, he
follows and copies good books and memoirs, but spoils
them by additions and reflections of his own, which are
frequently ill placed, and by no means judicious. His
criticism is often faulty, and his theology not always just.