Pierre-Célestin Roux-Lavergne
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Pierre-Célestin Roux-Lavergne (19 May 1802 – 14 February 1874) was a French Roman Catholic priest, philosopher and politician.
Biography
Pierre-Célestin Roux-Lavergne was born at Figeac in the Lot department. Teacher, then inspector of primary schools, he helped to project and collaborated for a time in the writing of the multi-volume Parliamentary History of the French Revolution[1] by Philippe Buchez.[2]
Having received his doctorate in 1847, he became professor of history at the Faculty of Rennes. Roux-Lavergne was deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine from 1848 to 1849, he then resumed his chair. After been defeated in the elections of 1849, he modified his policy, joined the right and strongly approved of the expedition against the Roman Republic.
He contributed to L'Univers and other Catholic periodicals of the time. Having become a widower, he entered holy orders and studied theology, becoming a professor at the Major Seminary of Nîmes and a diocesan curate of Rodez.
Alongside such men as Frédéric Morin (1823–1874) and Edmond Domet de Vorges (1829–1910), Roux-Lavergne took part in the Neo-scholastic revival in 19th-century France. With Eugène Germer-Durand, he edited the major works of Thomas Aquinas in two volumes (1853–1854). In 1886, he published a revised edition of Antoine Goudin's, Philosophia iuxta inconcussa tutissimaque D. Thomae dogmata (1675).
Returning to Rennes, he died honorary canon of the cathedral.
Works
- De cognitionis humanae legibus (1847)
- De la philosophie de l'histoire (1850; with preface by Louis Veuillot)
- M. Cousin et ses doctrines (1851)
- Compendium philosophiae juxta doctrinam S. Thomae Aquinatis ad usum seminariorum (1856)
- Un sentier à travers le siècle: les idées et les hommes (1869)
Notes
- ↑ Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste (1966). "Buchez et la Révolution française," Annales historiques de la Révolution française, No. 184, pp. 77–107.
- ↑ Buchez had been one of the founders of the French Carbonari in the eighteen-twenties and had then become a disciple of Henri de Saint-Simon. Ultimately he converted to Catholicism, although this did not changed his political convictions. In collaboration with Roux-Lavergne, he wrote an immense Histoire Parlementaire de la Revolution Française, which has been used extensively by several generations of historians — Michelet and Lamartine included — without much acknowledgment. Several of his chief followers, Roux-Lavergne, Pierre Réquédat (1819–1840), Louis-Alexandre Piel (1808–1841), Jean Baptiste Besson (1816–1861), Pierre Olivaint (1816–1871), having turned back from Buchez and the Utopian contents of his Socialist doctrines, eventually became Catholic priests.
References
- Isambert, F.-A. (1968). Bûchez ou l'âge théologique de la sociologie; Politique, religion et science de l'homme chez Philippe Bûchez (1796-1865). Paris: Cujas.
