Antoine Touron

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rdf:langString Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French Dominican biographer and historian. He 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. He wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. , in his Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, made generous use of his Histoire des hommes illustres.... Touron's writings include: * "Vie de saint Thomas d'Aquin" (considered his best work) * "Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples" * "Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique" * "De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor." * "La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites", a work in which he shows that as often as the Chosen People proved false to their Divine vocation, they were punished by God * "Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle" * "La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée" * "La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas" * "Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte", an ecclesiastical history of the New World.