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<p> a French theologian, was born at [[Paris]] in 1585. Having finished his studies at the college of the cardinal Le Moine, [[Hugues]] Menard joined the [[Benedictines]] in the [[Monastery]] of St. Denis, Feb. 3, 1608 . He at first devoted himself to preaching, and was very successful in the principal pulpits of Paris. Finding the discipline not sufficiently severe in the [[Abbey]] of St. Denis, he repaired to Verdun, to enter the reformed Monastery of St. Vanne. Later he taught rhetoric at Cluni, and finally went to St. Germain- des-Pres, where he terminated his laborious career, Jan. 20,1644. He wrote, Martyrologium SS. ord. S. Benedicti (Paris, 1629, 8vo), a work that is still read: -Concordia Regularum, auctore S. Benedicto, Aniance abbate, with notes and learned observations (Paris, 1628, 4to):-D. Gregorii papce, cognomento Magni, Liber Sacramentorum (Par. 1642, 4to) :-De unico Dyonisio, [[Areopagitica]] Athenarum et Parisiorum episcopo (Paris, 1643, 8vo), against the canon of Launoy — S. Barnabce, apostoli, Epistola catholica (Paris, 1645, 4to), an epistle taken by ‘ H. Menard from a MS. of Corbie; and published after his death by D'Achery. See Niceron, Memoires, vol. xxii; Ellies Dupin, Bibl. des Aut. eccles. du dix-septieme siecle: Hist. litt. de la Cong. de Saint-Maur, p. 18 sq. </p>

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