Dominique de La Rochefoucauld
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Dominique de La Rochefoucauld (Saint-Ilpize, Haute-Loire, 26 September 1712 – Münster, Germany, 23 September 1800) was a French bishop and cardinal.[1]
Life
Before the French Revolution
He was from an impoverished branch of the
archbishop of Rouen
in 1759.
Under the Revolution
The clergy of
États généraux of 1789. As President of the chamber of clergy, he refused its union with the Third Estate. He had to submit, given a direct order from Louis XVI
. In protest he submitted a list of clerical rights.
He led a fierce opposition to the Constitution, and signed the protest of 12 September 1791. After 10 August 1792 he went into exile, in Germany from 1794.
He joined the Société des amis des noirs.
Notes
- ^ From 1778.
Bibliography
- Fisquet, Honoré (1864). La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana): Metropole de Rouen: Rouen (in French). Paris: Etienne Repos. pp. 268–275.
- Loth, Julien (1893). Histoire du cardinal de la Rochefoucauld et du diocèse de Rouen pendant la Révolution (in French). Evreux: l'Eure. p. 743.
External links
- "(20) 2. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Dominique de (1712-1800)", The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
- (in French) "Monseigneur de la Rochefoucault – Thérèse Eude (séance du 21 octobre 1992)", Groupe Histoire des Hôpitaux de Rouen
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