Jacques Jubé sometimes called Jubé de la Cour, (26 March 1674 in

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– 19 December 1745 in Paris) was a French

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, teacher, and

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. He became known initially in his youth, during the Regency, by his liturgical reforms in the parish of

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. He lived in exile during the second half of his existence, mainly in the Netherlands where he published most of his work. But it is the three years he spent in Russia under the reign of Peter II and

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, which attracted the attention of his contemporaries and his principal biographer, historian

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. Jubé resided in Moscow as a chaplain of Princess

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who had newly converted to

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, and tutor to the children. The premature death of the young Tsar Peter II put an abrupt end to his projects. Expelled in 1732 by

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, he recorded his experiences in Russia in a book entitled "Religion, morality, and customs of Moscow. This book is one of the few documents of the time describing in detail the customs and daily life in Russia during this period and is distinguished by its many illustrations from the hand of Jubé.

Early life

Jacques Jubé was born in

on 26 March 1674. He came from a working-class family; his father was a laborer and launderer employed by Montargis, lord of Vanves. He began his studies at the

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and proceeded to study at Harcourt College. With financial support from the

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family, he joined the seminar of Saint-Magloire where great figures of

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such as Laurent-François Boursier and Jacques Joseph Duguet were. Jubé befriended his classmate

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(1693–1733), the future bishop of the

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. In addition, he showed a keen interest in Catholic theology and pursued a course at the

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where he became knowledgeable in foreign languages, including

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, Syriac, and

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. He became a priest in 1696 and was assigned the

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in 1698, then that of

in 1701.M. Prévost, Roman d'Amat, et H. Thibout de Morembert, ''Dictionnaire de biographie française'', tome 18.

References

* Jacques Jubé, ''La religion, les mœurs, et les usages des moscovites'', présentation, introduction et notes de Michel Mervaud, The Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 1992, 252 p. :''This article was initially translated from the French Wikipedia'' Jansenists 1674 births 1745 deaths 17th-century French Jesuits 18th-century French Jesuits French male non-fiction writers 18th-century French memoirists {{France-reli-bio-stub