Antoine Touron

Antoine Touron was a French Dominican biographer and historian.

Biography

Touron was born at Graulhet, Tarn, France, the son of a merchant, and seems to have joined the Dominicans at an early age. After the completion of his studies he taught philosophy and theology to the students of his province ; but the later years of his life were devoted to biography, history, and apologetics. He died at Paris.

Works

Touron wrote twenty-nine books, dealing largely with the history of the Dominican order and the biographical sketches of its notable men. Daniel-Antonin Mortier, in his Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, made generous use of his Histoire des hommes illustres.
Touron's writings include:

Vie de saint Thomas Aquinas
Vie de saint Dominique avec une hist. abrégée des ses premiers disciples
Hist. des hommes illustres de l'ordre de saint Dominique
De la providence, traité hist., dogmat. et mor.
La main de Dieu sur les incrédules, ou hist. abrégée des Israélites
Parallèle de l'incrédule et du vrai fidèle
La vie et l'esprit de saint Charles Borromée
La verité vengée en faveur de saint Thomas
Hist. génerale de l'Amérique depuis sa découverte, an ecclesiastical history of the New World.