Lamennais, Jean Marie Robert De

Lamennais, Jean Marie Robert de a French theologian, brother of the preceding, born at St. Malo about 1775, flourished as canon of the diocese of Rennes, and was the founder of the order known as Les freres de Lamennais de Ploermel (compare Herzog, Real-Encyklopl. 4:509). He wrote several works on religious subjects, but they are of no particular value. In the preparation of Tradition de l'eglise sur l'institution des eveques he greatly assisted his brother. He died in 1860. — Thomas, Biographical Dictionary, page 1362.