Louis Bossuet

Louis Bossuet (22 February 1663 – 15 January 1742) was a French parlementaire.

Life

Bossuet was born in

Louis XIV and all of the princes and princesses of the line.^[1]

Bossuet died in Paris in 1742.

Bossuet was advisor to the parliament of Metz (1685) and master of petitions in the parliament of Paris (1696).

Louis Bossuet was painted by the French baroque painter Hyacinthe Rigaud in 1698, and the portrait was sold for £140. Its current whereabouts are unknown.^[2]

Jacques-Régis du Cray, Le sang de l’Aigle de Meaux (histoire et descendance des frères et sœurs de Bossuet), preface by Bernard Barbiche, Suresnes, 2004, pp. 25–6.

^ Abbé Le Dieu, Mémoires & Journal sur la vie et les ouvrages de Bossuet, l’abbé Guettés, Paris, 4 vols. 1856–1857, I, p. 20.
^ J. Roman, Le livre de raison du peintre Hyacinthe Rigaud, Paris, 1919, p. 66