Dom Pernety

Micheline Meillassoux-Le Cerf

Histoire, économie & société, 1988, vol. 7, issue 2, 285-289

Abstract: [eng] Abstract Dom Pernety's religious evolution is quite characteristic of that of a number of monks of the XVIIIth century. At first a maunst benedictine at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, he wrote various works. He even sailed to the Falklands with Bougainville. In 1767, he left the Order to become a librarian at Frederic II 's court and a member of an Illuminist group inspired by Swedenborg's theology. He wrote down the questions and answers ot a mysterious Holy Word. The Illuminati left Berlin but the group reassembled in Avignon did not outlive the french Revolution nor did they overcome their internal strife. Pernety drifted out of Illuminism and died a roman catholic. [fre] Résumé L'itinéraire de Dom Pernety est bien caractéristique de celui de certains religieux du XVIIIème siècle. Bénédictin mauriste à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, il écrit des ouvrages divers. Il accompagne même Bougainville aux Malouines. Mais en 1767, il quitte l'Ordre. Il devient bibliothécaire à la cour de Frédéric II et entre dans un groupe d'Illuminés d'inspiration swedenborgienne. Il transcrit les questions et les réponses d'une mystérieuse Sainte Parole. Les Illuminés quittent Berlin ; mais le groupe reconstitué en Avignon ne survivra pas aux événements révolutionnaires et aux dissensions internes. Pernety quittera progressivement l'illuminisme et terminera sa vie dans la foi cathobque.

Date: 1988
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1988.1518
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.3406/hes.1988.1518 (text/html)
https://www.persee.fr/doc/hes_0752-5702_1988_num_7_2_1518 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1988_num_7_2_1518

Access Statistics for this article

Histoire, économie & société is currently edited by Armand Colin

More articles in Histoire, économie & société from Programme National Persée
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Equipe PERSEE ().