Cornet, Nicolas
Cornet, Nicolas
French theologian, born at Amiens, 1572; died at Paris, 1663. He studied at the Jesuit college of his native place, took the doctorate of theology at the University of Paris, 1626, and soon became president of the Collège de Navarre and syndic of the Sorbonne or faculty of theology. In this latter capacity he reported to the assembly of the Sorbonne, 1649, seven propositions, two taken from Arnauld’s “Fréquente Communion” and five from the “Augustinus” of Jansenius. In spite of strong opposition created by members of the faculty who, with Saint-Amour, appealed to Parliament and by Jansenists like De Bourseis in “Propositiones de gratiâ in Sorbonnæ facultate prope diem examinandæ, propositæ Cal. Junii 1649”, and Arnauld in “Considérations sur l’entreprise faite par M. Cornet, syndic de la faculté, en l’assemblée de Juillet 1649”, he succeeded in having the Assembly of the Clergy of 1650 denounce the five propositions of the “Augustinus” to Pope Innocent X, who condemned them, 31 May, 1653 (Denzinger, Enchiridion, nos. 1092 (966) sqq.). Maligned by Jansenist writers like Hermant, Cornet was held in high esteem by Richelieu and Mazarin. His eulogy was pronounced by no less a personage than Bossuet himself (Oraison funèbre de Messire Nicolas Cornet). He left no writings, but is said to have collaborated with Richelieu on the “Méthodes de controverse”.
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RAPIN, Mémoires (Paris, 1865); SAINTE-BEUVE, Port-Royal (Paris, 1871); ROHRBACHER, Histoire universelle (Paris, 1885), XI, 9, 150.
J. F. SOLLIER. Transcribed by Douglas J. Potter Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Cornet, Nicolas
a French theologian, was born at Amiens in 1592. He was educated in his native city at a Jesuit school, made doctor of theology at Paris in 1626, and afterwards became grand-master of the College of Navarre, and syndic of the faculty of theology. He refused to be the confessor of Richelieu, but corrected the Methodes de Controverse of that minister, and, it is said, composed the preface. He denounced to the faculty of theology seven propositions, five of which were afterwards condemned at Rome as extracts from the Augustinus of Jansenius. This orthodox zeal exposed Cornet to the attacks of the writers of Port Royal. He died at Paris, April 12, 1663. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Biog. Universelle, s.v.