BTW, you should google yourself again....
At 10:35 PM 4/30/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Absolutely nothing to do with +our+ Dom, but i couldn't resist passing it
>on.
>
>Robin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael North" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:19 PM
>Subject: "Dom." for French Jesuits?
>
>
> > Was it common for 18th and 19th century Jesuits to take the title "dom"
> > before their last name? Or did only Benedictines do that?
> >
> > I am looking into Louis Bertrand Castel (1688-1757), a Jesuit physicist
> > who seems to have anonymously translated Cadwallader Colden's An
> > Explication of the First Causes of Matter (Paris, 1751). Barbier's
> > Ouvrages anonymes attributes the translation to "Dom. or Dominique
> > Castel(s)", and Querard to Dom. Castel. I am certain that L.B. Castel
> > translated it, but want to track down the reason for this error.
> > "Dominique" is probably what I would call an incorrect back-formation
> > from "Dom." I find no evidence of a Dominique Castel(s) otherwise.
> >
> > An odd question, but thanks for any help,
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael North, [log in to unmask]
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