Life

He was born at Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

, the eldest son of a councillor of the Lyon presidial

Présidial

The Présidial was a judicial tribunal of the French Ancien Régime, set up in January 1551 by Henry II of France and suppressed by a decree of the National Assembly in 1790....

(court of justice). Gaspard Terrasson

Gaspard Terrasson

Gaspard Terrasson was a French Oratorian, teaching humanities and afterwards philosophy, and later a well-known preacher.-Life:Terrasson was born at Lyon...

 was his brother. Entering the Congregation of the Oratory, he devoted himself to preaching, where he gained a high reputation.

He preached the Lenten sermons of 1717 before Louis XIV, next at the Court of Lorraine, and later twice in the metropolitan church of Paris; the last of these series broke down his health and led to his death at Paris.

Works

About fifty of his discourses, mostly delivered as Lenten lectures, are preserved, and were published at Paris (4 vols., 1726, 1736).