André Terrasson
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André Terrasson (1669 – 25 April 1723) was a French Oratorian preacher.
Life[edit]
He was born at Lyon, the eldest son of a councillor of the Lyon presidial (court of justice). Gaspard Terrasson was his brother. Entering the Congregation of the Oratory, he devoted himself to preaching, where he gained a high reputation.
He preached the Lenten sermons of 1717 before Louis XIV, next at the Court of Lorraine, and later twice in the metropolitan church of Paris; the last of these series broke down his health and led to his death at Paris.
Works[edit]
About fifty of his discourses, mostly delivered as Lenten lectures, are preserved, and were published at Paris (4 vols., 1726, 1736).
References[edit]
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "André Terrasson". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- Jean-Marie-Joseph Thomasseau de Cursay, Mémoires sur les savants de la famille de Terrasson (Trévoux, 1761);
- Nouvelles ecclésiastiques (1736, 1744);
- Supplément au nécrologe des plus célèbres défenseurs de la vérité (s. l., 1763), 120;
- Jules Candel, Les prédicateurs français dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1904);
- Pierre Féret, La Faculté de théologie de Paris, Epoque moderne, VI (Paris, 1909), 144.
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