Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf

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Roman Catholic
In office1788–99
PredecessorAntoine de Montazet
SuccessorJoseph Fesch
Previous post(s)Bishop of Autun (1767–88)
Orders
Ordination1754
Consecration12 July 1767
by Antoine de Montazet
Personal details
Born17 May 1734
Died15 April 1799 (aged 64)

Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf (

European Enlightenment thinking,[1] and of Jansenism.[2]

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

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

  1. ^ Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (2001), p. 56.
  2. ^ James R. Lehning, Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France During the Nineteenth Century (1995), p. 171.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf at Catholic Hierarchy.org.