Jacques Bouillart

Jacques Bouillart (1669 – 11 December 1726) was a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St.-Maur.

Bouillart was born in the Diocese of Chartres. He professed at the Monastery of St. Faron de Meaux in 1687. He was the author of Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris, 1724). This history of the Benedictine monastery contains biographies of the abbots that ruled over it, since its foundation by Childeric I in 543, along with historical events related to the abbey. It also contains many illustrations and detailed descriptions of architecture, art and historical documents. Bouillart also edited a martyrology of Usuard. In this publication he attempted to establish the genuineness and authenticity of the manuscript preserved at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, against Jean Baptiste du Sollier, a Jesuit hagiographer, who in his revised edition of Usuard's martyrology had paid no attention to this manuscript.

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Jacques Bouillart — A Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St.-Maur, b. in the Diocese of Chartres, 1669; professed at the Monastery of St. Faron de Meaux 1687, d. 11 December, 1726. He was the author of "Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prés" (Paris, 1724). This valuable history of the celebrated Benedictine monastery contains biographies of the abbots that ruled over it, since its foundation by Childeric I in 543 and many important historical events relative to the famous abbey. Bouillart also edited a martyrology of Usuard. In this publication he attempts to establish the genuineness and authenticity of the manuscript preserved at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, against the Jesuit hagiographer Du Sollier, who in his revised edition of Usuard's martyrology had paid no attention to this manuscript.

DE LAMA, Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la congregation de Saint-Maur (Munich and Paris, 1882), 128; ZIEGELBAUER, Hist. Rei lit. O. S. B. (Augsburg and Wurzburg, 1754), IV, 558); HURTER, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1893), II, 1201; LE CERF, Bibl. hist. et crit. des auteurs de la c.de St. Maur (The Hague 1726).

Bibliography

• De Lama, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (Munich and Paris, 1882), 128
• Magnoald Ziegelbauer, Historia rei literariae ordinis S. Benedicti (Augsburg and Wurzburg, 1754), IV, 558
• Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator (Innsbruck, 1893), II, 1201
• Jean-Philippe Le Cerf, Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la Congrégation de Saint-Maur (The Hague 1726)
• Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Jacques Bouillart". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.