Tabaraud, Matthieu Mathurin

Tabaraud, Matthieu Mathurin a French controversialist, was born at Limoges in 1744. He was educated by the Jesuits, was for some time professor of belles-lettres at Nantes, professor of theology and Hebrew at Arles, in 1783 superior of the college at Pdzenas, in 1787 at Rochelle, emigrated in 1791 to England, and died at Limoges, January 9, 1832. He published, Traite Historique et Critique de l'Election des Eveques (Paris, 1792, 2 volumes): — De la Necessite d'une Religion d'Etat (1803, 1804): — Principes sur la Distinction du Contrat et dut Sacrement de Mariage (1802, 1816): — Histoire de Pierre de Berulle, Fondateur de la Congregation de l'Oratoire (1817, 2 volumes). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:726, 820; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.).