Bouillart, Jacques, 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 snag 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 écrivains de la congrégation 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, ones et crit. des auteurs de la c. de St. Maur (The Hague ;
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