Charles Maurice Le Tellier
Roman Catholic | |
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Archdiocese | Reims |
See | Notre Dame de Reims |
Installed | 3 August 1671 |
Term ended | 22 February 1710 |
Predecessor | Antonio Barberini |
Successor | François de Mailly |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 22 February 1710 Reims, France | (aged 67)
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | College of Sorbonne, Paris |
Charles Maurice Le Tellier (1642 in
The son of
His administration was marked by zeal and success along the lines of popular education, training of clerics, parochial organization, restoration of ecclesiastical discipline and extirpation of Protestantism from the
As secretary of the
The famous Gallican Assembly of 1682 was convened at his suggestion. Elected president with Harlay, he caused the bishops to endorse the royal policy of encroachment on church affairs, and even memorialized the pope with a view to make him accept the régale. His comparative moderation in the matter of the four Gallican propositions was due to Bossuet, who remarked that "the glory of the régale would only be obscured by those odious propositions."
As president of the Assembly (1700) which undertook to deal with
Le Tellier is remembered as a successful administrator, an orator of some merit, a promoter of letters, a protector of Saint
Le Tellier was also a manuscript collector (e.g. Minuscule 10, 11, 13, 284, and 467).
References
- Abbé Joseph Gillet, Charles-Maurice Le Tellier, with an exhaustive bibliography (Paris, 1881), p. xii and passim
- Charles Sainte-Beuve, Port-Royal (ed. 1900), index.
- Luc-Normand Tellier, Face aux Colbert : les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot ... et l'avènement du libéralisme, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Charles-Maurice Le Tellier". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.