Ferdinand Brettes

Timothée Ferdinand Brettes (19 December 1837 – 24 February 1923) was a French Roman Catholic priest and canon.

Biography

Priest of the Diocese of Bordeaux (1861), then of that of Paris, prebendal canon of Paris (1886–1904), then honorary, also Chaplain at the Patronal School of Sainte-Geneviève (1868–1874). He was Vicar at the Madeleine Church in Paris, in 1874. First vicar of Our Lady of Clignancourt from 1874 to 1886.

Brettes was at one point linked to Paul Rosen. He was one of the founders of the Cercles catholiques ouvriers. In 1894, he also founded the Academy of Canon Law. His interest in esoteric subjects led him to found the Society for Psychical Sciences.

He died in Saint-Sever, Landes.

References

• "Brettes (abbé Timothée-Ferdinand)." In: Henry Carnoy (ed.), Dictionnaire Biographique International des Écrivains. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag (1984), pp. 134–36.
• Jarrige, Michel (1999). L'Église et les Francs-maçons dans la Tourmente: Croisade de la Revue "la Franc-maçonnerie Démasquée", 1884-1899. Paris: Éd. Arguments.
• Monroe, John Warne (2008). "Confronting the Multivalent Self, 1880–1914." In: Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 199–250.

External links

• Works by Ferdinand Brettes at Gallica