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Michel Tronchay (October 1668 – 30 October 1733) was a French Catholic priest, writer, philosopher, and the secretary of French historian Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont. After Tillemont's death, Tronchay completed and published volumes 6–16 of Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique des six premiers siècles, a history of the first six centuries of the Christian church. He also completed and published the final volume 6 of Histoire des empereurs et autres princes qui ont régné pendant les six premiers siècles de l'Église, a history of the Roman Empire. That work was often cited by Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Tronchay published a biography of Tillemont in 1706, Idee de la vie et de T esprit de M. L. de Tillemont, and a history of Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey titled Histoire abrégée de l'abbaye de PortRoyal.

Tronchay was born in Mayenne in October 1668. He died on 30 October 1733.

See also

• Biography
• Catholicism
• France

References

1. Hubert Jedin (1981). History of the Church: The church in the age of absolutism and enlightenment. Crossroad. p. 427. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
2. Michel-Joseph-Pierre Picot (1825). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique pendant le 18e siècle, Volumes 3–4. Felix de Pachtere. p. 153. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
3. Bruno Neveu (1966). Un Historien A L'cole De Port-royalsebastien Le Nain De Tillemont 1637-1698/ a Historian at the School of Port-royalsebastien the Dwarf Tillemont 1637–1698. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9789024701919. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
4. René Cerveau (1760). Nécrologe des plus célèbres défenseurs et confesseurs de la vérité au 18e siècle contenant les principales circonstances de la vie et de la mort des personnes de l'un et de l'autre sexe, qui ont été recommandables par leur piété, leur science et leur atta. p. 217. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

• "Michel Tronchay", in Alphonse-Victor Angot, Ferdinand Gaugain, Dictionnaire historique, topographique et biographique de la Mayenne, Goupil, 1900–1910

External links

• Works by or about Michel Tronchay at the Internet Archive

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