Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan

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Jean-Georges Lefranc de Pompignan, (Musée de la Révolution française)

Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan (22 February 1715 in Montauban – 29 December 1790 in Paris) was a French clergyman, younger brother of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan.

Life

His father, Jacques Lefranc, was president of the Cour des Aides; and his mother, Mademoiselle de Caulet, was the daughter of a man who held a judicial rank in the Parlement de Toulouse. He was born in Montauban,[1] and was raised at the family's Château de Cayx in Cahors.

Like his brother, he studied with the Jesuits at the Collège de Clermont,, and then with the Sulpicians.

Pompignan was

Quaker. He supported the Archbishop of Paris in lobbying for Louis XVI to follow tradition and hold his coronation at Reims Cathedral rather than at Paris as recommended by Minister Turgot.[3]

Elected to the

National Assembly. He was one of its first presidents, and was minister of public worship when the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
was forced upon the clergy.

References

  1. ^ "Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan", Larousse
  2. ^ "Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan", The British Museum
  3. ISBN 9780231109260


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