It seems that towards the end of the 18th century a rationalistic and free-thinking spirit invaded some of the houses. The congregation was suppressed and the monks scattered at the revolution, the last superior-general with forty of his monks dying on the scaffold in Paris. The present French congregation of Benedictines initiated by Dom Guéranger in 1833 is a new creation and has no continuity with the congregation of St Maur. The great claim of the Maurists to the gratitude and admiration of posterity is their historical and critical school, which stands quite alone in history, and produced an extraordinary number of colossal works of erudition which still are of permanent value. The foundations of this school were laid by Dom Tarisse, the first superior-general, who in 1632 issued instructions to the superiors of the monasteries to train the young monks in the habits of research and of organized work. The pioneers in production were Ménard and d'Achery. The following tables give, divided into groups, the most important Maurist works, along with such information as may be useful to students. All works are folio when not otherwise noted:-- I.--THE EDITIONS OF THE FATHERS Epistle of Barnabas Ménard 1645 1 in 4^to (editio princeps) Lanfranc d'Achery 1648 1 Guibert of Nogent d'Achery 1651 1 Robert Pulleyn and Peter of Poitiers Mathou 1655 1 Bernard Mabillon 1667 2 Anselm Gerberon 1675 1 Cassiodorus Garet 1679 1 Augustine (see Kukula, Delfau, Blampin, _Die Mauriner-Ausgabe Coustant, Guesnie 1681-1700 11 des Augustinus_, 1898) Ambrose du Frische 1686-1690 2 Acta martyrum sincera Ruinart 1689 1 Hilary Coustant 1693 1 Jerome Martianay 1693-1706 5 Athanasius Loppin and Mont- faucon 1698 3 Gregory of Tours Ruinart 1699 1 Gregory the Great Sainte-Marthe 1705 4 Hildebert of Tours Beaugendre 1708 1 Irenaeus Massuet 1710 1 Chrysostom Montfaucon 1718-1738 13 Cyril of Jerusalem Touttée and Maran 1720 1 Epistolae romanorum Coustant 1721 1 pontificum[2] Basil Garnier and Maran 1721-1730 3 Cyprian (Baluze, not a Maurist) finished