Jumilhac, Dom Pierre-Benoit de

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Jumilhac, Dom Pierre-Benoit de

Jumilhac, Dom Pierre-Benoit de, Benedictine monk and writer on Gregorian chant; b. Château St. Jean-de-Ligourre, near Limoges, 1611; d. St. Germain-des-Prés, March 21, 1682. He studied in Bordeaux. He became a novice of the Benedictine Order in the Congregation of St. Maur at St. Rémy in Rheims (1629); was professed there (1630). He was prior of St. Julien in Tours (1647–66), then retired to the Abbey in his birthplace. He publ, the erudite treatise La Science et la pratique du plain-chant (Paris, 1673; ed. by T. Nisard and A. Le Clerq, 1847).

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