Antoine Touron

Antoine Touron (5 September 1686 – 2 September 1775) was a French Dominican biographer and historian.

Biography

Touron 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.

Works

Touron wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. Daniel-Antonin Mortier, 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
• 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
• 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.

References

• Antonin Mortier (1903–1911). Hist. des maîtres gén. de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs (in French). Vol. 5 vols. Paris.
• Hugo von Hurter (1895). Nomenclator literarius. Vol. III. Innsbruck. pp. 164–5.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Antoine Touron". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.