Family Name: Parrain de Durette
First Name: François
Birth Date: 1668
Birth Place: Bourges
Death Date: Jul, 1727
Death Place: Canterbury
Main places of activity:
Place From To
Bourges 1668 1698
Place From To
London 1698 1718
Place From To
Guernsey 1719 1726
Personal info:
Education

Parrain de Durette was trained as a Benedectine monk in Bourges.
Career

In 1699, Parrain de Durette moved to London, where he abjured the Catholic faith and embraced the Reformed tradition on the 18th of November, in the church of Savoye.

He started preaching and became minister in some of the  French churches in London. In the midst of the Bagorian controversy (1716-1721), he was briefly banned from exercising his pastoral duties because of his very extreme positions.

Afterwards, he also assumed the role of chaplain for the Dragoon regiment of Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham. In 1719, Parrain de Durette followed Temple in the Spanish campaign during the War of the Quadruple Alliance.

Back in England, he retired to the island of Guerney, where he continued preaching.
Translations Other Works

translations activities

Parrain de Durette is known to have translated only one work, from English to French.

Another translation seems to be a version of Chillingworth's sermons in Latin verses, but the original is unknown.

secondary bibliography references

S. Andrew, The Church of England and the Bangorian Controversy, 1716-1721, London, Boydell & Brewer, p. 96.

D. Boisson, Consciences en liberté: itinéraires d'ecclésiastiques convertis au protestantisme, 1631-1760, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2009, pp. 352-358.

G. Sanna, Religione e vita pubblica nell'Inghilterra del '700: le avventure di Benjamin Hoadly, Milan, FrancoAngeli, 2012, pp. 316-317.

Translations

  • Miscellanea

  • Translation Title: La religion protestante, une voye sure au salut. Par Guillaume Chillingworth, trad. de l'Anglois par Parrain de Durette, avec des disserations de Jean Hales
  • Original Author: William Chillingworth, John Hales and Pierre Des Maizeaux
  • Original title: Miscellanea
  • Publ. Year From: 1684 to: 1724
  • lang: English
  • Translation: La religion protestante, une voye sure au salut. Par Guillaume Chillingworth, trad. de l'Anglois par Parrain de Durette, avec des disserations de Jean Hales
  • Pub. Place: Amsterdam
  • Pub. Date: 1729
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    This translation includes religious tracts and a summary of the lives of their authors, Chillingworth and Hales.

    In particular: William Chillingworth, The religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation, Oxford, 1638; John Hales, Several Tracts, London, 1716; and pieces taken from François Des Maizeaux's An historical and critical account of the life and writings of the ever-memorable Mr. John Hales, London, 1719 and An historical and critical account of the life and writings of W. Chillingworth, London, 1725.

    While the translation of Chillingworth's treatise is to be attributed to Parrain de Durette, there is no information concerning the translator of Hales' tracts.


      



      
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