Maurice Maignen, (1822–1890), was a French Social Reformer and a Roman Catholic Religious Brother during the nineteenth century.
He was the founder of the Catholic Circle of Montparnasse to prevent future tragedies from happening, like the Paris Commune.
[1] In 1818, his father, an artist, graduated from Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, before joining the Military House of the King, as a bodyguard.
He found, with Jean-Léon Le Prevost and Clement Myionnet, the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Vincent de Paul with the apostolate of education of the youth and evangelisation of the poor and workers.
His body was interred in the Chapel at the Montparnasse Circle and his heart was encased in a reliquary in the Motherhouse of his "Congregation of the Brothers of St. Vincent de Paul."