Hervé Roullet

Roullet was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, on 7 September 1947. He is an engineer from the École supérieure d'agriculture d'Angers and he graduated from IAE Paris (also known as Sorbonne Graduate Business School). He spent his professional career in the Parisian headquarters of various banking groups. He is also a composer of piano music and liturgical chants and Christian writer.

Roullet was taught by Henry Mesmin, a disciple of Vincent d'Indy and Déodat de Séverac. He is of the romantic tradition, with modern characteristics. The writer and music critic Jean Cabourg defined him as a "musical watercolor artist haunted by grace " and added "a music which smells good, to quote Claude Debussy". His music, which is intimate and melodious, expresses a personal and original language. He pays homage to the beauty of creation, and appears to aim for an ideal which will give peace of mind and change of scenery. • Piano pieces The Pieces for piano are in two volumes: the Croquis champêtres et the Voyages oniriques. Patrick Tudoret, the 2009 Grand prix de la Critique littéraire laureate, establishes a relationship between Jean Cras's works and those of Hervé Roullet: "[…] the complicity of a dreamed time between Jean Cras and the contemporary sensibility of Hervé Roullet impose upon the sober and haughty touch of Jean Dubé (musician). Deux impromptus and Ames d'enfants with Xavier Bouchaud, of the first one, find singular correspondences in the Croquis champêtres and the Voyages oniriques of the second" • Liturgical pieces The liturgical works are chants for mixed chorus, a cappella, or with piano or organ accompaniment. All the parts form a triptych: chants for the Mass (liturgy), Marian chants and other liturgical chants. The used texts find their source in the Bible, the Roman Catholic liturgy, the Fathers of the Church or saints. Among liturgical chants: Ave Verum Corpus, Tantum ergo, Our Father, Anima Christi, Divine Praises,... Among chants of Marian devotion: Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella, Salve Regina, Ave Regina caelorum, Regina caeli,...

Roullet followed theological studies during 1995–2003, in Paris. He received a Master of Theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris, specialization in ecumenism, on October 17, 2003. He is the author of twenty-six books in French related to Christianity. Twenty-one have received the Imprimatur of the Archbishop of Paris: • Pellevoisin. Marie visite Estelle, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2026. • Genevieve. Sainte Geneviève, patronne de Paris. La vierge gestionnaire, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2025. • Le Laus (Our Lady of Laus). 54 years of Marian apparitions. The life of Benoîte Rencurel (1647-1718), Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2025. • Germaine Cousin (from Pibrac), the little shepherdess, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2024. • Anthony of Padua ou de Lisbonne. Docteur évangélique, thaumaturge et compagnon familier, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2023. • Les chrétiennes martyres, depuis le début du christianisme, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2023. • L'apparition de la Vierge Marie à La Salette. Marie réconciliatrice. Les vies de Mélanie Calvat et Maximin Giraud. Actualité des secrets, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2021. • Joseph of Cupertino. Illetré, thaumaturge et théologien. Le saint qui s'envole devant le pape, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2020. • Gemma Galgani, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2019. • Lazare et ses soeurs Marthe et Marie, Lazarus of Bethany and his sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2019. • Les esprits célestes, the celestial Spirits, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2019. • Les Martyrs d'Otrante, The Martyrs of Otranto, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2018. • Sainte Mâtie, Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2018. • Chrétiens et musulmans. Marie porte de l'unité, Éd. Docteur angélique, Avignon, 2018. • Les sept demeures de Marie (The seven houses of Mary): Nazareth, Jérusalem, Éphèse (House of the Virgin Mary), Lorette (Loreto, Marche)..., Paris, Hervé Roullet, AVM Diffusion, 2018. • Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, Sainte Thérèse-Marguerite Redi, Une spiritualité du Coeur de Jésus, Coll. "Saints du monde", Éd. Pierre Téqui, Paris, 2017. • Josephine Bakhita, l'esclave devenue sainte, Paris: Ed. de l'Emmanuel, 2015, Emmanuel Community. • L'Amour. Le secret des chrétiens, Ed. Salvator, Paris, 2012. • L'amour et le mal, Ed. L'Œuvre, Paris,2012. • 1200 mots chrétiens, Éd. Sarment-Jubilé, Paris, 2010. • La foi catholique avec des mots simples, Éd. Docteur angélique, Avignon, 2010. • Être laïc et se former dans l'Eglise d'aujourd'hui, Ed. D.F.R, Bordeaux, 2010. • Il est ressuscité, La foi catholique expliquée à tous, Ed. Soceval-Artège, Perpignan, 2009. • Marie Reine de l'Amour, Éd. Docteur angélique, Avignon, 2009. • Saint Etienne (Saint Stephen), premier diacre et premier martyr, Coll. "Saints du monde", Éd. Pierre Téqui, Paris, 2006. • La renaissance du catéchuménat dans la France contemporaine et à "l'âge d'or" des Pères de l'Église (Church Fathers), Éd. Pierre Téqui, Paris, 2006.