Denis-Antoine-Luc de Frayssinous

Denis-Antoine-Luc comte de Frayssinous (born May 9, 1765 in Curières , Aveyron department , † December 12, 1841 in Saint-Geniez-d'Olt , Aveyron department) was a French clergyman , politician , orator and titular bishop of Hermopolis Maior .

biography

Frayssinous became a clergyman in Paris under Napoleon I , but as a royalist was no longer allowed to climb the pulpit since 1809. After the Restoration, in 1816 he became Louis XVIII's first almsman and court preacher . , then Titular Bishop of Hermopolis Parva , Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor , Count and Peer , Grand Master of the University of Paris in 1823 and Minister of Education in 1824 (ministre des Affaires ecclésiastiques et de l'Instruction publique).

With Jean-Baptiste de Villèle he lost his portfolio in 1828 , but remained in the full confidence of Charles X and followed the royal family into exile. There he directed the education of Henri d'Artois , Duke of Bordeaux, in Gorizia until 1838 . He died on December 12, 1842 in Saint-Geniez in Gascony .

He was a member of the Chambre des pairs and was elected to the Académie française in 1822 .

Works

Les vrais principes de l'église gallicane sur la puissance ecclésiastique, la papauté, les libertés Gallicanes, la promotion des évêques, les trois concordats, et les appels comme d'abus . Paris 1818, several editions.
Conférences et discours inédits . Paris 1843.
Oeuvres oratoires complètes . Edited by Jacques Paul Migne , Paris 1856.
M. l'Abbé Migne: Collection intégrale et universelle des orateurs chrétiens. Series 2 Contenant les œuvres oratoires complètes de Frayssinous . Contains all of Frayssinou's speeches.

literature

Mathieu Richard Auguste Henrion: Vie de Mgr. Frayssinous, évêque d'Hermopolis , 2 vols., Paris 1844
François Colombet: Étude sur Frayssinous . Lyon 1853
Louis Bertrand: Bibliothèque sulpicienne II . Paris 1900
Adrien Garnier: Frayssinous son rôle dans l'Université sous la Restauration 1822-1828 . Paris 1925
Adrien Garnier: Frayssinous et la jeunesse . Paris 1932
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Frayssinous, Denis de. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 114-115. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Entry on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Frayssinous, Denis-Antoine-Luc de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Frayssinous, Denis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	Curières , Aveyron
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1841
Place of death	Saint-Geniez , Aveyron