Le Grand, Antoine
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Description: 17th-century French-born English Cartesian, who gave Descartes' theories a Scholastic touch. Article by Patricia Easton from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Antoine Le Grand (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Fri Sep 14, 2001; substantive revision Mon Sep 10, 2012 Antoine Le Grand (1629–1699) was a philosopher and catholic theologian who played an important role in propagating the Cartesian philosophy in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century. He was born in Douai, (at the time under rule by the Spanish Hapsburgs), and early in life was associated with an English community of Franciscans who had a college there. Le Grand became a Franciscan Recollect friar prior to leaving for England as a missionary in 1656. In England, he taught philosophy and theology, advocating Catholicism and eventually Cartesianism, the latter being as unpopular as the former was perilous. It is not clear how Le Grand came to Cartesianism, but the first evidence of his adoption of the new philosophy was in his
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