Jacques Le Fèvre

For the humanist of the sixteenth century, see Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples. For the fencer, see Jacques Lefèvre (fencer).

Jacques Le Fèvre (b. at Lisieux towards the middle of the seventeenth century; d. 1 July 1716, at Paris) was a French Roman Catholic theologian and controversialist.

Life

He became archdeacon of his Lisieux and vicar-general of the Archbishopric of Bourges. In 1674 he received the doctorate in theology from the Sorbonne.

Works

His works are the following:

Amongst Le Fèvre's other works are

"Conférence avec un ministre touchant les causes de la separation des protestants" (Paris, 1685);

To Father Jacques-Philippe Lallemant, who had defended his confrère in the "Journal historique des assemblées tenues en Sorbonne", Le Fèvre replied in his "Anti-journal historique ..."; and he also produced "Animadversions sur l'histoire ecclésiastique du P. Noël Alexandre ", the first volume of which was printed at Rouen without date about 1680; it was seized and destroyed, and the other volumes were not published.

References

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