Antoine Touron Explained

Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French Dominican biographer and historian.

Biography

Touron was born at Graulhet, Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province (Toulouse); but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and apologetics. He died at Paris.

Works

Touron wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. Daniel-Antonin Mortier, in his French: Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, made generous use of his French: Histoire des hommes illustres.

Touron's writings include:

• French: Vie de saint [[Thomas Aquinas|Thomas d'Aquin]]
• French: Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples
• French: Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique
• French: De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor.
• French: La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites
• French: Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle
• French: La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée
• French: La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas
• French: Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte, an ecclesiastical history of the New World.

References

• Book: Antonin Mortier . Hist. des maîtres gén. de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs . fr . 5 vols . Paris . 1903–1911 .
• Book: Hugo von Hurter . Hugo von Hurter . Nomenclator literarius . III . Innsbruck . 1895 . 164–5 .