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Louis-Mayeul Chaudon
Louis-Mayeul Chaudon (20 May 1737, Valensole – 28 May 1817, Mézin), was a French Benedictine biographer.
Life.
After studying in the colleges of Marseille and Avignon, Chaudon decided to become an ecclesiastic, and was admitted to the order of Saint Benedict at Cluny. Here he had the use of a library. He received honorable briefs from Pope Clement XIII and Pope Pius VI for the works which he composed in defense of Catholicism.
The congregation of Cluny was
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- Attribution
- cites:
- "Dict. des livres Jansénist"
- Ste. Beuve, "Port-Royal", V. vi, 2
- Louis Mayeul Chaudon and Delandine, "Dict. univ. Hist., Crit. et Bibliogr"
- Louis Moréri, "Le Grand Dictionnaire historique"
- Jungmann in "Kirchenlexikon".