Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
– 13 October 1742, in
La Flèche
La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most p ...
), was an 18th-century French
Jesuit
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priest and historian.
He was rector of the college of
Orléans
Orléans (,"Orleans" (US) and Jacques Longueval. Taking residence in the maison professe de Paris, he published volumes IX and X and prepared volume XI.
He led the observation of the
solar eclipse
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on 12 July 1684 at the
collège Louis-le-Grand
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between ...
.After .
Texts
* ''Histoire de l'Église gallicane'', vol 9 et 10, París, 1739 and 1744.
Sources
* H. Beylard: Article ''Fontenai, Pierre-Claude'' dans ''Diccionario historico de la Compañia de Jesús'', vol.II, Roma, IHSI, 2001, (p. 1483).