Jean Calvin by Emilé Doumergue

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Has anyone ever read Jean Calvin by Emilé Doumergue (1844 - 1937)? It's a 7-volume early 20th century biography written in French. Loraine Boettner in Calvinism in History describes it thusly:

Dr. Emilé Doumergue, the author of Jean Calvin, which is beyond comparison the most exhaustive and authoritative work ever published on Calvin, has the following to say about the death of Servetus...
 
Dear Andrew,

I have these works in Dutch (is transelated), and i read some parts of it, which is very good. If you want to study good biografy of Calvin, and this is a very good one:up:
 
DOUMERGUE, Emile, ref. Theologian, * 25,11. 1844 in Nîmes, † 14,2. 1937 in Montauban. - D. studied Montauban in Geneva, and in Germany and became 1880 professor for church history at the theological faculty in Montauban, 1906 Dekan and 1919 with his entrance into the retirement Ehrendekan. It was a 1871-80 editor of the weekly revue “Le Christianisme outer XIX e siècle” and up to his death coworker of this organ of the reformed Orthodoxie and the half monthly review “Foi et Vie”. D. is well-known as Calvinfor and Vorkämpfer of the church rights against penetrating modern theology, particularly against the “Symbolofideismus”, those of Augusts Sabatier and Eugène Ménégoz represented “theology that Paris school”.

Works: Jean Calvin. Les of hommes et les choses de son temps, 7 Bde., Lausanne 1899-1917 and Neuilly 1926/27 (I: La jeunesse de C, 1899; II: Les Prime Minister essais, 1902; III: La ville, la maison et la rue de C, 1905; IV: La pensée religieuse de C, 1910; V: La pensée ecclésiastique et la pensée politique de C, 1917; VI: La lutte, 1926; VII: Le of triumphs; Iconographie calvinienne, 1927); Une poignée de faux: la mort de Calvin et les Jésuites, 1900; La Genève calviniste, 1905; Lausanne outer temps de la Réformation, 1905; Les Etapes you Fidéisme (gg. Eugène Ménégoz), 1907; La piété réformée d'après Calvin, 1908; Calomnies of antiprotestantes, 1912, Le caractère de Calvin, 1921 (Nachdr. Geneva 1970. - Deut. expenditure. v. William Boudriot: Calvins nature. Humans, the structure of thought, the church, the state, 1933); La paix et la vérité, 1922.

John Calvin & the Church: A Prism of Reform, Timothy George, ed., p. 69:

Many people helped in the preparation of this essay. Mrs. Hobbie Bryant translated material by Doumergue from French to English.
 
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