Louis Richeome (1544–1625) was a French

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theologian and controversialist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms "Ludovicus de Beaumanoir", "Felix de la Grace", and "Franciscus Montanus".

Life

Richeome was born in

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in 1544. He studied at the

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under Juan Maldonado and in 1565 joined the Society of Jesus. In 1580 he was appointed principal of the student residence at the university of

Pont-à-Mousson Pont-à-Mousson () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Its inhabitants are known as ''Mussipontains'' in French. It is an industrial town (mainly steel industry), situated on the river Moselle. Pont-à-Mou ...

. He was instrumental in the Jesuit residence in

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being allowed to reopen its college in 1603. In 1605 he was appointed Father Provincial of the Lyon Province, and from 1608 to 1616 was in Rome as assistant to

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.Eric Nelson, ''The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France, 1590-1615'' (Ashgate, 2005), p. 120-121. Richeome died in

on 15 September 1625.

Publications

*''L'adieu de l'âme devote laissant le corps'' (Tournon, Claude Michel and Guillaume Linocier, 1593) *as François des Montaignes, ''La verité defendue pour la religion catholique. En la cause des Jesuites, contre le plaidoyé d'Antoine Arnaud'' (Tolose, WIdow of Jacques Colomiez, 1595)
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**as Franciscus Montanus, ''Apologia pro Societate Jesu in Gallia contra Antonii Arnaldi advocati parisiensis philippicam'' (Ingolstadt, Adam Sartorius, 1596)
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*''Trois discours pour la religion catholique'' (Bordeaux, S. Millanges, 1599)
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*''Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du tresauguste sacrifice et sacrement de l'Eucharistie'' (Paris, Laurens Sonnius, 1601)
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**''Holy Pictures of the Mysticall Figures of the Most Holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Eucharist'', tr. C.A. (n.p., 1619). *as Felix de la Grace, ''La chasse du renard Pasquin'' (Arras,

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, 1603)
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*''Le Pélerin de Lorète'' (Bordeaux, S. Millanges, 1604)
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**''Peregrinus Lauretanus'', tr. Johann Haickstein (Cologne, Joannes Crithius, 1612)
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**''The Pilgrime of Loreto'', tr. Edward Walpole (Paris, 1629) *''Expostulatio apologetica ad Henricum IV. pro Societate Jesu'' (Lyon, Horatius Cardon, 1606)
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*''Miracula quae ad invocationem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae apud Tungros, Camberones et Servios in Hannonia ac Dominam gaudiorum in Picardia vulgo notre Dame de Liesse dictam effulsere ab anno 1081 ad annum usque 1605'' (Douai, Charles Boscard, 1606)
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*''L'idolatrie huguenote'' (Rouen, Honoré Malard, 1607
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**''Idololatria Huguenotica'', tr. Marcellinus Bompar (Mainz, Petrus Henigus, 1613)
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*''Valedictio Animae Devotae'' (Cologne, Petrus Henningus, 1610)
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*''La peinture spirituelle'' (Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1611)
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*''Justa anniversaria Henrico Magno'' (Antwerp,

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, 1613)
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*''Examen catégorique du libelle Anticoton'' (Pont-à-Mousson, Melchior Bernard, 1613)
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*as Ludovicus de Beaumanoir, ''Expostulatoria defensio ad senatum'' (n.p., 1615
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*''De Ratione migrandi ad meliorem vitam'' (Cologne, Petrus Henningus, 1617)
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*''L' Immortalité de l'Ame'' (Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1621)
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*''Œuvres du R. Pere Louis Richeome'' (Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1628)
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