Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord

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Cardinal Talleyrand-Périgord, Archbishop of Paris

Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord (born October 16, 1736 in Paris , † October 20, 1821 there ) was a French bishop and statesman .

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Talleyrand was a paternal uncle of statesman and diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord .

Talleyrand received his theological and legal training at the Collège Henri-IV de La Flèche , the seminary of Saint-Sulpice and the Faculté de droit in Reims . In 1761 he was ordained a priest . In 1762 he entered the service of the Vicar General of Verdun , in 1766 he was ordained titular archbishop of Traianopolis in Rhodope and coadjutor archbishop of Reims , and finally on October 27, 1777 he was appointed archbishop of this diocese.

In 1789 Talleyrand was one of the representatives of the clergy in the Estates General . In 1790 he went into exile, which the emigré spent successively in Aachen , Weimar and Braunschweig . Since he rejected the Concordat of 1801 , he formally resigned his office on November 8, 1816 after the Bourbon Restoration in 1815. During the " Hundred Days ", Napoleon's brief return to power, Talleyrand, a proponent of the Bourbon monarchy, followed Louis XVIII. into exile in Ghent . In the consistory of July 28, 1817, he was created cardinal by Pope Pius VII and on October 1, 1817, at the age of almost 81, he was still Archbishop of Paris .

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predecessor Office successor
Jean-Sifrein Maury Archbishop of Paris
1817–1821 		Hyacinthe-Louis de Quelen
Charles-Antoine de la Roche-Aymon Archbishop of Reims
1777–1816 		Jean-Charles de Coucy
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SURNAME Talleyrand-Périgord, Alexandre Angélique de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1821
Place of death Paris