DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, doo ver-zhE-1 de 6-ran, Jean, French theologian : b. Bayonne 1581; d. Paris, 11 Oct. 1643. At the University of Louvain, where he studied the ology, one of his fellow students, and his most intimate friend, was Cornelius Jansen (q.v.), after whom a certain system of theological views is named— aJansenism? The two friends, after both had left the university, con tinued their intimate relations, first at Paris, then at Bayonne, where Duvergier had been appointed to a prebend. When Jansen left Bayonne Duvergier resigned his prebend and went back to Paris. All this time the two men had diligently been studying the ancient fathers of the Church, and in particular Saint Augus tine, from whom Jansen claimed to have drawn his doctrine of Divine Grace. In Paris Du vergier's winning personality and his reputation for austere views of religious and moral obli gations commended him to the favor of the bishop of Poictiers, who gave up to him the monastery, or abbey, of Saint Cyran, and there Duvergier brought together a number of devout men, formed them into a convent of monks, under the ancient, unamended rule of Saint Benedict. But his zeal for reform of
the monastic life was suspected of being in spired by a secret hostility to the Church and the Church's rulers, and Duvergier was com pelled to retire from Saint Cyran, whence he returned to Paris. There he was received with great favor by the highest society, especially the feminine element, and in particular he be came the trusted counsellor of Angelique Ar nauld, abbess of Port Royal, and all the mem bers of the remarkable Arnauld family, those staunch defenders of Jansenism (see AR NAULD). A sect was formed and Cardinal Richelieu had strong suspicions that the abbe of Saint Cyran was leader in a conspiracy against Church and State; so he was arrested by order of the cardinal and committed to the castle of Vincennes 14 March 1638, where he was herd in close confinement as long as Riche lieu lived, or till December 1642; and he sur vived his liberation only a few months. His biography has been written by Lancelot (Cologne 1738).