RANCAGUA, ran-kii'gwa. The capital of the Province of O'Higgins, Chile. It is situated in a rich agricultural district on the railroad 40 miles :Ald' of Santiago (Map: Chile. C 10). In 114 it was the scene of an important battle in which the patriot forces were defeated by the Spaniards. Population. in 1805, 6700.
MN's:V, DOMINIQUE ARMAND JEAN LEBOUTDILLIER DE ( 1626-1701)) . The founder of the reformed order of La Trappe. (See TRAP PISTS. ) Ile was born in Paris January 9. 1626, and educated there. Having taken his degree in the Sorbonne, he soon became distinguished as a preacher, and through the favor of Cardinal Richelieu obtained more than one valuable bene fice. He succeeded while yet a young man to a large fortune. and lived a Careless and irreg ular life. After a time. however, having forfeited the favor of Cardinal Mazarin, and deeply moved by the sudden death of the Duchess de Nontbazon, to whom be was much attached, he resigned all his preferments with the excep tion of the abbacy of La Trappe. in Nor
mandy, to which he retired in 1662. with the intention of restoring the strict disei pline of the Order. He lived in this seclusion for the rest of his life. and published a large number of works, chiefly ascetical. The only remarkable event of his literary life was his controversy with Mabillon. in reply to his Etudes nionastiques, on the subject of the studies proper for the monastic life. He also wrote Dr la sofa tete et des deroirs de In vie monastique (1683; Eng. trans., A Treatise on the Sanctity and on the Duties, of the Monastic State, Dublin, 1830). In his youth he had edited the works of Ana ereon, with translation and notes (1639), and dedieated the book to Cardinal Richelieu. He died at La Trappe, October 27. 1700. Migne re printed his Wurres oratoires. Consult his Life by C. Butler (London, 1814), and by Dubois (Paris, 1860).