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Though sources vary as to Labadie’s travelling companions, it seems that he set off with Drilhole, second archdeacon of Bazas,1) and the latter’s nephew, La Brouche, and that he travelled under the name of Saint-Nicholas, after his canonry at Amiens. He visited his family at Bourg, rejoined the party at Blaye and proceeded by way of Bordeaux, where they conferred with archbishop Sourdis, to Bazas, arriving on 10 October 1644. A letter from Paris to bishop Caumartin at Amiens shows that Labadie’s move was much talked about in the capital. The anonymous writer notes: ‘The rumour of M. de St. Nicholas’ journey still continues, and he whom you know hopes to accompany him,’ presumably a reference to Dabillon, who had escaped banishment from Picardy.2)
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Notes to Chapter 3
For a comparison with several of the condemned propositions of Baius, see Lantenay, Labadie et le Carmel (Bordeaux, 1886), pp. 38–40.
He was capitoul (consul) of Toulouse in 1646; A. du Mège, Histoire des institutions religieuses... de la ville de Toulouse, II, 442. Toulouse, 1844.
Feydeau, Mémoires, ed. E. Jovy (Vitry-le-François, 1905):35f. The whole matter of dating would be solved if the episode referred to the false rumours of Labadie’s abjuration already encountered. It is significant that Feydeau does not regard Labadie as heretic, fanatic or sectarian, but merely as ‘quietist’, underlining the dangers of the teaching of ‘detachment’ which he found Labadie’s former charges to have imbibed. The woman, who provided information for Hermant’s Défense, spoke of Labadie as having ‘un grand atrait pour se faire suivre et une grande autorité pour se faire obéir.’
Fifth of that name and not second, as the Dict. de biog. nat. has it. An alternative spelling (used in the ms. biography) was Favas; see H. Barckhausen, ‘Mémoires de Jean de Fabas’, Publications, Soc. des bibliophiles de Guyenne 1 (1868), esp. pp. 220–223.
These would be: Martinus Chemnitius, Examen Concilii Tridentini, probably the 4-part edition, Frankfurt, 1574, revised 1596.
Petri Suavis Polani Historiae Concili Tridentini libri octo, translated from the Italian, London 1620.
A. Sadeelis Chandei... opera theologica volumine uno comprehensa, Geneva, 1599.
La Confirmation de la Discipline Ecclésiastique observée ès Eglises Reformées, no place 1566. Calvin’s Institutes had run to at least sixteen Latin editions by this time.
Jean Séguy, ‘Monsieur Vincent, la Congrégation de la Mission et les derniers temps’, Vincent de Paul; actes du colloque international d’études Vincentiennes, Rome, 1981, pp. 217–238.
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Saxby, T.J. (1987). The Troubled Years. From Bazas to Montauban, 1644–1650. In: The Quest for the New Jerusalem, Jean de Labadie and the Labadists, 1610–1744. Archives internationales d’histoire des idees/International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3567-9_3
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