Philip Falle: Priest, scholar, musician, benefactor

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Philippe Falle



Memorial tablet in the old library


This article by Philip Stevens appeared in the 2018 Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise. We are reproducing it as page images as a temporary measure until resources permit it's transfer to the normal Jerripedia format, with links to relevant pages and external sources [1]


Notes and references

  1. ↑ It is interesting that the article has only a short section on Falle's 1694 Caesarea, his widely acclaimed history of Jersey. And the article's headline does not describe him as a historian. Perhaps this indicates that the author accepts the current view that Falle 'borrowed' much of the content of his history from Jean Poingdestre's Caesarea: Or a Discourse of the Island of Jersey which was written in 1682, but not published until 1889, by La Société Jersiaise, a full two centuries after the manuscript was completed. It then became obvious that the history supposedly written by Philippe Falle, and first published in 1694, was not an original work but in many respects a copy of Poingdestre's work. It is he, and not Falle, who should be regarded as Jersey's foremost 17th century historian
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