Quentin-Claude Bendier
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Claude Bendier was a doctor of the Sorbonne
, canon of Saint-Quentin, Aisne
, and a well-known French bibliophile.
Born in Saint-Quentin in an unknown year, he always remained strongly attached to his native city, to which he bequeathed his 3000 volume library on the condition that it be open to the public twice a week. His Life of St. Quentin was read in many primary schools during the Restoration
and the early reign of Louis-Philippe.
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
, canon of Saint-Quentin, Aisne
Saint-Quentin, Aisne
Saint-Quentin is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France. It has been identified as the Augusta Veromanduorum of antiquity. It is named after Saint Quentin, who is said to have been martyred here in the 3rd century....
, and a well-known French bibliophile.
Born in Saint-Quentin in an unknown year, he always remained strongly attached to his native city, to which he bequeathed his 3000 volume library on the condition that it be open to the public twice a week. His Life of St. Quentin was read in many primary schools during the Restoration
Bourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...
and the early reign of Louis-Philippe.
Works
- 1671: La Défense des principales prérogatives de la ville et de l'église royale de S.-Quentin en Vermandois, par laquelle il est clairement justifié que cette ville est l'ancienne Auguste de Vermandois, et son église le siége primitif des évêques de ce diocèse. St-Quentin: Le Queux
- 1673: La vie du très illustre martyr, Saint-Quentin, apôtre et patron du VermandoisVermandoisVermandois was a French county, that appears in the Merovingian period. In the tenth century, it was organised around two castellan domains: St Quentin and Péronne . Pepin I of Vermandois, the earliest of its hereditary counts, was descended in direct male line from the emperor Charlemagne...
- --do.--Quatrième édition. Saint-Quentin : Vve C. Le Queux, 1696 (later editions appeared in 1828, 1840 and 1842)
- 1684: L'hérésie de CalvinJohn CalvinJohn Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530...
détruite par sept preuves invincibles. Saint-Quentin: Vve C. Le Queux- --do.-- Saint-Quentin; et se vend à Paris: L. de Heuqueville, 1685
External links
- Hommes de Saint-Quentin (in French)