Jacques Échard (b.
22 September 1644,
Rouen – d.
15 March 1724,
Paris) was a French
Dominican and historian of the order.As the son of a wealthy official of the king he received a thorough classical and secular education. He entered the Dominican Order at Paris and distinguished himself for his assiduity in study. When
Jacques Quétif, who had planned and gathered nearly one-fourth of the material for a literary history of the Dominican Order, died in 1698, Echard was commissioned to complete the work. After much labour and extensive research in most European libraries this monumental history appeared in two quarto volumes, under the title Scriptores ordinis prædicatorum recensiti, notisque historicis illustrati ad annum 1700 auctoribus. (Paris, 1721). There was a reprint: New York: Burt Franklin, 1959-61.
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