Fabio Brulart de Sillery (25 October 1655, château de Pressigny – 20 November 1714, Paris) was a French churchman, bishop of Avranches and bishop of Soissons.

Great grandson of Henri de Montmorency and godson of Pope Alexander VII to whom he owes his Italian given name, he studied ancient Greek and Hebrew and received the title of doctor aged only 26. Député to the assembly of the clergy in 1685, he became bishop of Avranches in 1689, then of Soissons from 1692 to 1714. A member of the Académie de Soissons, he was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions in 1701, then of the Académie française in 1705.

Fabio Brulart de Sillery

Only a few of Fabio Brulart de Sillery's writings survive, including some poems and dissertations, a harangue against James II of England, a catechism, and some other texts published by François Lamy in 1700 with some by Antoine Arnauld and Dominique Bouhours under the title Réflexions sur l'éloquence.

Fabio Brulart de Sillery

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External links

Biography on the Académie française site

Genealogy of the Sillery family

1655 births

1714 deaths

People from Indre-et-Loire

Bishops of Avranches

Bishops of Soissons

Translators from Hebrew

French classical scholars

Members of the Académie Française

Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

French male writers

17th-century French translators

Fabio Brulart de Sillery