There are two possible solutions for the marriage of Jean Moyse Dutoit and Jeanne Rose Pitton at Oppens, 1807. Both are included in the present database. More information is needed.
Appears in a document dated 26 jan 1725 (Fran�ois Gilliand, notary at Moudon) relating to a question of inheritance from the Monnerat family. Unfortunately, his parents are not identified by name, but no other connection between the Dutoit and Monnerat families has surfaced. This document is the first indication that any of the children of Jaques and Marguerite survived. Apparently the same person who married Anne Mottaz, but we would like to locate evidence to confirm this.
MARRIAGE: 9 JUN 1762, Corcelles-pr�s-Payerne, Vaud,Switzerland
He was minister at Lausanne at about the same time as the famous Jean Philippe Dutoit-Membrini. He was minister of the French church at Bern from at least 1752. He seems to be associated somehow with Samuel Chastellanat, minister at M�zi�res. 1752 and 1762: second minister at Bern; 1766: first minister at Bern. Marriage record of his son says that was also pasteur at "Meiry" (Meyriez). Registers at Bern show him as first minister 07 may 1765, with last baptismal entry there 12 jan 1775. He was minister at Meyriez 03 jan 1775, and presumably served there almost until the next minister Henri Dessonnaz was installed, 12 apr 1790. Henri Vuilleumier (Histoire de l'Eglise R�form�e du Pays de Vaud, 1933) notes that he died in 1790 at the "cure de repos de Meyriez" (not correct, since we found his burial record at Lausanne), and that he was very probably the author of the Ordonnances �clessiastiques pour le Pays de Vaud that were published anonymously in Bern in 1773 ("De l'Imprimerie de Leurs Excellences"—a copy from Oxford University has been digitized on GoogleBooks).
Discovering his parentage has been difficult. The record of his first marriage at Lausanne gives no details of his background. However, his second marriage is recorded at Corcelles-pr�s-Payerne, with interesting details:
"Jean Philippe Dutoit ministre et bourgeois de Moudon, diacre de l'�glise fran�aise de Berne, et Susanne Gabrielle Dance de Morges, ont, ensuite d'un brevet de 17 mai 1762, fait b�nir leur mariage dans ma paroisse, de mon aveu, par Msr. le ministre Bourgeois, pasteur de Mesieres, son cousin."
The minister Bourgeois turns out to be Daniel Bourgeois baptised 21 dec 1717, son of Daniel Philippe Bourgeois and Marguerite Guidroz of Moudon. Daniel married Esther Marguerite Arthaud, daughter of Jean Louis Arthaud, and the latter was married to a sister of Marie Lions or Lyons, the same Marie who was the wife of Louis Jacob Dutoit. The Arthaud family appears more than once at baptisms with Jean Philippe Dutoit. For example, at the baptism of Gabriel J�r�mie Dutoit 24 sep 1749, the sponsors are Gabriel Roy, pastor at Perroy, with his wife Pauline Arthaud, and J�r�mie Arthaud (b. 1675, son of Paul Arthaud and Marie Crespin), with his wife Antoinette Sylvestre. It appears all of these families are well represented among the clergy of Vaud. Finally, once we know that Jean Philippe is associated with the Lions and Arthaud families, a baptism from 1735 now makes sense:
22 oct 1735: Jaques Philippe Paul son of Pierre Philippe Dutoit and Elizabeth Meistre, sponsors Jaques Dutoit, chamoiseur; Jean Philippe Dutoit, estudiant; Pauline Arthaud; Marie Bedard.
Pierre Philippe is the son of Louis Jacob Dutoit and Marie Lions, Jaques Dutoit is probably Pierre Philippe's brother baptised as Jacob and known to be a chamoiseur, Jean Philippe the student (presumably at the Acad�mie de Lausanne, the nearest institution of higher learning that would warrant the epithet "estudiant" in the eyes of the Eglise R�form�e) is now clearly identified as Pierre Philippe's brother, and not Jean Philippe Dutoit-Membrini, Pauline Arthaud is evidently the same woman who became the wife of the minister Gabriel Roy, and Marie B�dard must be the daughter of Susanne Lions and Daniel B�dard.
Our deductions about the parentage of Jean Philippe are confirmed in his lettre de bourgeoisie at Lausanne (AVL D 441/1 fol. 222): "Spectable Jean Philippe DuToit ag� de 32 ans ministre du St. Evangile dans cette ville, fils du Sieur Louis Jacob Du Toit bourgeois de Moudon et de Marie Lions sa femme".
Documents recorded by Isaac Samuel Denis DuBrit, notary at Moudon, tell us which Jean Philippe is which: 07 mar 1744, Jean Philippe Dutoit, proposant (theology student) and his brother Pierre Philippe Dutoit, heirs of the late Jacob Dutoit, officier ballival de Moudon, and their unnamed coheirs, sold property to Eg. Jaques David Burnand, curial de Moudon and Chatelain de Siens. The property was a garden in Moudon. The witnesses were Monsieur le Proposant Jean Philippe Dutoit le Cadet, and the minister Andr� Dutoit. (Thus, we know that the elder of the two Jean Philippe Dutoits was the son of Jacob, and the other Jean Philippe's parentage is well known.)
Among the mentions of Jean Philippe's descendants at Lausanne and elsewhere, at least one claimed citizenship at Vevey as well as Moudon and Lausanne. The parentage we have discovered does not suggest any connection to Vevey, but it is possible that Jean Philippe or his sons may have acquired bourgeois status there after leaving Lausanne.
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Buried "sous les Clo�tres" at the Cimiti�re de la Cit�, Lausanne. Burial record gives his age as 70 years and 6 months.
Subdeacon at Lausanne for only a few weeks in 1754, the only official position he ever held. He was the famous mystic and author. He never married. His is noted as "Dutoit-Membrini" presumably to distinguish him from another subdeacon at Lausanne in the 1750's, also named Jean Philippe Dutoit (the latter identified as Dutoit-Aguet).
His baptism recorded at Moudon 05 oct 1721 says "Jean Philippe fils de Philippe Dutoit et Susanne Membrini de Vevey", and includes, with the typical ambiguity of these records, the name of the sponsor, "Marie grandmere dudit Philippe". Was Marie the grandmother of Jean Philippe, or of his father? This question is of some importance, for it helps to confirm that we have correctly understood the ancestry of Jean Philippe Dutoit-Membrini. The man who married Susanne Membrini in 1717 is called Philippe in the marriage record, and is identified as a son of Pierre. From this information, it is already clear that "Philippe" cannot be the son of Daniel Dutoit and Jaquaz Trolliet, who had a son Pierre Philippe at the Acad�mie of Lausanne in 1692 (Isaac Dutoit, notary at Moudon, ACV DL 37/4, 09 jan 1692). If, on the other hand, Philippe were the son of Pierre Dutoit and Marie Frossard, then Marie Frossard, who lived until 1729, would be the grandmother of Jean Philippe. In addition, the grandmother of "Philippe" was Marie Burnand, but it is very doubtful that she would still have been alive in 1721, and even less likely that she would be listed as "marraine".
In Auguste Verdeil's Histoire du Canton de Vaud (1849-1852), we find the following interesting account of the activities of "Dutoit-Membrini":
Un autre r�gent du coll�ge [i. e., l'Acad�mie de Lausanne], Mr. [Jean Fran�ois] Ballif de Lucens, se fit une r�putation, non-seulement par son savoir, mais aussi par les opinions mystiques qu'il partageait avec son ami, Mr. Dutoit-Membrini, de Moudon.
Ces deux eccl�siastiques appartenaient � l'une de ces sectes qui se form�rent pendant le XVIIIme. si�cle par r�action contre l'incr�dulit�, et contre les encyclop�distes. Ces sectes, les Th�osophes, les Illumin�s, les Ames-Int�rieures, admettaient dans le christianisme des doctrines mystiques et des communications avec la divinit�, surtout par la m�ditation. MM. Dutoit-Membrini et Ballif appartenaient auxAmes-Int�rieures, disciples de la "Sainte Madame Guyon," comme les adeptes d�signaient cette femme c�l�bre. Mr. Dutoit, "Directeur des Ames-Int�rieurs" du Pays de Vaud, recevait les ordres du "Grand-Ma�tre," le comte de Fleischbein, r�sidant � Pyrmont. Il fut d�nonc� � LL. EE. qui demand�rent des renseignements � l'acad�mie de Lausanne, sur MM. Dutoit et Ballif, et la secte dont ils �taient les chefs. "Ces sectaires, r�pondait l'acad�mie, le 11 janvier 1769, font profession d'admettre les id�es mystiques de Mr. F�n�lon et de Madame Guyon, sur l'amour divin, et posent des principes sur l'union intime de l'�me fid�le avec Dieu, sur l'union des �mes pures entr'elles, et sur la voix de l'esprit, parlant distinctivement aux coeurs r�g�n�r�s... Ceux que Mr. a s�duit par ses doctrines ne se distingu�rent que par une vie plus retir�e et plus aust�re, par plus d'�loignement pour les plaisirs, par une sorte de d�dain pour les autres hommes qu'ils tra�tent de profanes; par beaucoup de d�fiance � l'�gard des eccl�siastiques.' L'acad�mie termine sa lettre en observant que toute pers�cution doit �tre �vit�e, 'car la pers�cution donnerait plus de relief et de c�l�brit� � une secte obscure, et irriterait le feu du fanatisme au lieu de l'�teindre.' LL. EE. ayant appris que Mr. Dutoit levait une d�me sur les adeptes de sa secte, firent saisir ses papiers et ses livres, parmis lesquels on trouva une lettre adress�e par le comte de Fleischbein aux 'Int�rieurs', leur ordonnant de payer � 'Th�ophile', personnage myst�rieux, la dixi�me partie de leurs revenus, 'quelle qu'en soit la source: labour de la terre, gain de commerce, de manoeuvre, de m�tiers, de gage; revenus des magistrats, des gens de guerer, des p�res de famille, des gens d'�tudes ou gens de lettres, des hommes d'Eglise, des domestiques: tous doivent donner le dixi�me de leurs rentes, gains, gages, etc.; m�me le pauvre doit donner la dixi�me partie des aum�nes qu'il re�oit, et l'enfant, le dixi�me du petit argent que ses parents lui donnent. Cette d�me doit �tre vers�e dans la caisse du directeur pour la gloire de Dieu, etc... Mais il importe que le directeur soit exempt d'�crire ce qu'il prend dans la caisse et de rendre aucun compte, car chaque Ame-Int�rieur doit avoir l'oeil simple � cet �gard, comme � tout autre, etc."
Cependant, Mr. Dutoit, invit� � discontinuer la lev�e de la "D�me de Th�ophile," ne fut point pers�cut�. Sa secte, toujours entour�e de myst�re, existe encore; elle �tend au loin ses ramifications, et apr�s l'expulsion des baillis de Berne en 1798, elle donna � la R�publique Helv�tique des magistrats int�gres et d�vou�s, et sut traverser paisiblement nos dissentions politiques et religieuses. — Mr. Ballif, non-seulement fut conserv� par LL. EE. dans ses fonctions, mais savant hell�niste, il fut m�me appel� � une chaire de grec dans l'acad�mie. Il est l'auteur d'un ouvrage intitul�: La religion chr�tienne, Instruction pour conna�tre les principes du christianisme, imprim� en 1808, vingt ans apr�s sa mort. "On peut reprocher � cet ouvrage une forte teinte de mysticisme, dit le doyen Bridel, cependant, il est marqu� au bon coin."
Mr. Dutoit-Membrini publia plusieurs ouvrages, entre autres: sept volumes de Sermons, imprim�s � Lyon; La philosophie divine, par Kaleph-Ben-Nathan, 3 vol. in-8o. Le cinqui�me volume des Lettres de Madame Guyon, Londres, 1768, mais imprim� � Lyon, est d� � Mr. Dutoit, auteur lui-m�me des Anecdotes et r�flexions sur les lettres de Madame Guyon. Ces anecdotes et r�flections comprennent les cent-soixante premi�res pages de ce cinqui�me volume.
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Birth date is widely quoted but we did not find his baptism. The birth date is given in his burial record at Lausanne.
