Tillemont, LOUIS SÉBASTIEN LE NAIN DE

Tillemont, LOUIS SÉBASTIEN LE NAIN DE, ecclesiastical historian, was born in Paris, 30th November 1637, had his education from the Port-Royalists, and early devoted himself to historical studies. He entered the priesthood in 1676, and after the dispersion of the Solitaires in 1679 spent most of the remainder of his life on his estate at Tillemont near Paris. Here he died, 10th January 1698. His chief works are the laborious and solid Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique des Six Premiers Siècles (16 vols. 1693-1712) and the Histoire des Empereurs qui ont régné durant le Six Premiers Siècles de l'Eglise (6 vols. 1691-1738).