dozen were printed, but all were in hand, and the collections for the others fill 800 volumes of manuscripts. The materials for a geography of Gaul and France in 50 volumes perished in a fire during the Revolution. The output was prodigious, coming from a single society. The qualities that have made Maurist work proverbial for learning are its critical tact and its thoroughness. Prominent Maurists Dom Jacques Alexandre (1653–1734) Luc d'Achery (1609–1685) Dom Bédos de Celles (1709–1779) Ambroise Chevreux (1728–1792) Charles Clémencet (1703–1778) Pierre Coustant (1654–1721) Maurus Dantine (1688–1746) Léger Marie Deschamps (1716–1774) Ursin Durand (1682–1771) Michel Félibien (1665–1719) Jacques Du Frische (1640–1693) Robert Guérard (1641–1715) Guy Alexis Lobineau (1666–1727) Jean Mabillon (1632–1707) Edmond Martène (1654–1739) Nicolas-Hugues Ménard (1585–1644) Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741) Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–1796) Thierry Ruinart (1657–1709) Claude Estiennot de la Serre (1639–1699) René-Prosper Tassin (1697–1777) Charles-François Toustain (1700–1754) Joseph Vaissète (1685–1756) Notes References Citations Sources The chief source of information on the Maurists and their work is Dom Tassin's Histoire littéraire de la Congrégation de Saint-Maur (1770); it has been reduced to a bare bibliography and completed by de Lama, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (Münich and Paris, 1882). The two works of de Broglie, Mabillon (2 vols., 1888) and Montfaucon (2 vols., 1891), give a picture of the life of the great Maurists of the earlier generation. Sketches of the lives of a few of the chief Maurists will be found in McCarthy's Principal Writers of the Congregation of S. M. (1868). Useful information about their literary undertakings will be found in Léopold Delisle's Le Cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale; Fond's Saint-Germain-des-Prés. General information will be found in the standard authorities: Helyot, Histoire des ordres religieux (1718), vi. c. 37; Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen (1907) i. 36; Wetzer und Welte, Kirchenlexicon (ed. 2) and Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopädie (ed. 3), the latter an appreciation by the Protestant historian Otto Zückler. Benedictine congregations 1621 establishments in France