Charles-Eutrope de La Laurencie

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Charles-Eutrope de La Laurencie (born April 30, 1740 in Villeneuve-la-Comtesse , † May 13, 1816 ) was a French bishop .

Life

Charles-Eutrope de La Laurencie was born in 1740 in the castle of Villeneuve-la-Comtesse in the diocese of Saintes . He was Vicar General of the Bishop Saint-Aulaire of Poitiers . Appointed Bishop of Nantes in 1783 , he was consecrated on January 11, 1784. In 1790 he published a Novum Breviarium Nannetense .

Before the reign of terror , he fled to Belgium, then to the Netherlands and finally to England. He refused the resignation demanded by the Concordat Pius VII. With Napoleon , but was nevertheless given permission to return to France. He died on May 13, 1816, 76 years old.

literature

  • Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Picard [ao], Paris [ao] 1891
  • Jean François Eugène Robinet, Adolphe Robert, Julien Le Chaplain: Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la révolution et de l'empire: 1789–1815. Libr. Historique de la révolution et de l'empire, Paris [1898].
personal data
SURNAME La Laurencie, Charles-Eutrope de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Villeneuve-la-Comtesse
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1816