Jacques Echard
Jacques Echard
Historian of the Dominicans , born Rouen, France , 1644 ; died Paris, France , 1724 . On the death of Jacques Quetif, who had planned and gathered nearly one-fourth of the material for a literary history or the Dominican Order , Echard was commissioned to complete the work, which was published in 1721 . A new and revised edition was prepared in 1908 by Remi Coulon, O.P.