La famille de Nicolas-Antoine Boullanger et les milieux jansénistes

Marie-Thérèse Inguenaud : the family of Nicolas-Antoine Boullanger and jansenist circles. All that was known about the family of the philosopher N. A. Boullanger was that his parents were religious and that his father was a paper merchant. The discovery of certain documents, in particular his burial certificate and his parents' marriage contract, reveal the identity of his father Antoine (not Nicolas as Hampton and Sadrin thought) and mother, Geneviève Ledreux, and their address, rue Saint-Jacques, beside the Saint Yves chapel. This wealthy middle-class family was mainly composed of paper merchants, but was also allied to famous printers and booksellers like the Hérissants and Lottins. They were all influenced by Jansenism and Boullanger' s parents are quoted in Carré de Montge-ron's La vérité des miracles opérés par l'intercession de M. de Pâris (1745-47) as witnesses of a miracle. His work retains the mark of his Jansenist education.