The king supports science in the monastery against the abbot of La Trappe

The Traité des études monastiques is a work published in 1691 by Jean Mabillon. This text responded to the abbot of La Trappe, Rancé, who denied the value of scientific studies in monasteries in favor of manual labor. The king ended the quarrel by declaring that he considered Jean Mabillon to be the most learned and humble religious man in his kingdom.