in France by decrees of Parlement of 22 February and 24 March 1715, because it expressed opinions contravening the royal rights of sovereigns, that is, opposing the royal absolutism of the Bourbons. In Rome as well the work was placed in part on the Index by decree of 29 July 1722, because in some passages it contradicted the papal decree De ritibus Sinensibus ("quibus deletis liber permittitur", which [passages] being destroyed, the book is permitted). According to documents in the archives of the order this part of Jouvancy's book was written before the publication of the papal decree. Jouvancy died in Rome 29 May 1719. Notes References Attribution Cites: Carlos Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris, 1893), bibliographies in IX, X; SCHWICKERATH, Lern- und Lehrmethode von Joseph Juvencius in Bibliothek der katholischen Padagogik, X (Freiburg im Br., 1898) External links Joseph de Jouvancy in the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University 1643 births 1719 deaths 17th-century French historians 17th-century French Jesuits 18th-century French historians 18th-century French Jesuits Jesuit historiography Writers from Paris