Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf
Appearance
Roman Catholic | |
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In office | 1788–99 |
Predecessor | Antoine de Montazet |
Successor | Joseph Fesch |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of Autun (1767–88) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1754 |
Consecration | 12 July 1767 by Antoine de Montazet |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 May 1734 |
Died | 15 April 1799 (aged 64) |
Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf (
He went into exile after the French Revolution.
Biography
Nephew of the
Bishop of Autun on April 19, 1767, the seat he held until 1788; his successor is the famous Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
.
He then accesses the lucrative Abbey of Bec
, he was the last abbot.
Under the Old Regime, he was Minister of sheet profit, which managed the allocation of ecclesiastical positions in France.
From the early
Constitution civile du clergé.[3]
He decided to emigrate and was replaced in the see of Lyon by Bishop Antoine-Adrien Lamourette, juror, but in the eyes of the Catholic Church, Bishop Marbeuf was the legitimate bishop of Lyon until his death in 1799.[4]
Notes
- ^ Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (2001), p. 56.
- ^ James R. Lehning, Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France During the Nineteenth Century (1995), p. 171.
- ^ Jacques Gadille, René Fédou, Henri Hours, Bernard de Vregille, s.j., Le Diocèse de Lyon (Histoire des diocèses de France, 16), (Beauchesne, 1983, Paris), p350.
- ^ Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf at Catholic Hierarchy.org.