François d'Aix de Lachaise
François d'Aix, seigneur de La Chaise (called Père Lachaise ; born August 25, 1624 at Aix Castle near Saint-Martin-la-Sauveté , Loire department ; † January 20, 1709 in Paris ) was a French Jesuit .
Lachaise studied in the Jesuit college in Rohan , and later in that of Lyon . In the Jesuit college in Lyon he became a professor of physics and the fine sciences and was provincial of his order.
In 1675, after Father Ferrier's death, Louis XIV elected him confessor . In Paris it belonged to the Jesuit monastery Maison professe de Paris in the Rue St. Antoine with the monastery church Saint Louis and the college Louis-le-Grand . He is described as friendly, flattering, finely educated and personally unselfish. He moderated the king's fight against Jansenism and, after the death of Queen Marie Therese in 1683, carried out a secret marriage to Madame de Maintenon in a small circle of Ludwig . Over the years he was able to gain a ruling influence over the king and get the distribution of the church benefices entirely into his hands. Numerous political actors sought his advice in order to gain access to the Sun King.
He consolidated his position by favoring Madame de Maintenon, who was still devoted to him, and successfully took up the ultramontane interest in the declaration of the clergy about the freedoms of the Gallican Church , in the withdrawal of the Edict of Nantes in 1684 and in the quietistic disputes.
From 1701 he was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . After his death in 1709, Le Tellier , also a Jesuit, was his successor as confessor of the Sun King. He had had a country house built for him in the east of Paris, which bore the name Montlouis, and whose wide gardens were converted in 1804 into the burial ground known as Père Lachaise .
literature
- Régis de Chantelauze : Le Père de La Chaize, confesseur de Louis XIV . Paris and Lyon 1859
Web links
- Biography on private website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lachaise, François d'Aix de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chaise, François de la; La Chaise, François d'Aix de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jesuit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1624 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aix Castle, Forez |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1709 |
| Place of death | Paris |