Jacques Boileau

Title page of Historia flagellantium (1700).

Jacques Boileau (1635 - 1716) was a French clergyman and doctor of theology in the Sorbonne. He studied at the College d'Harcourt and was for 25 years vicar-general and legal vicar of the diocese of Sens.

Boileau wrote several unusual books on subjects of discipline of the Church, the best known being:

• Ad Decretalem super specula de Magistris, 1667
• De l'abus des nudités de gorge, 1675
• Historia confessionis auricularis, 1683
• Historia flagellantium, 1700
• Panégyriques des Saints, 1719

Many of his writings appeared under pseudonyms such as Ancyranus Marcellus, Claudius Fontétut and Jacques Barnabe.

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More information on this topic is available at [ Wikipedia:fr:Jacques Boileau ] (in French)

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