Henri Hachette des Portes

Henri Hachette des Portes (born January 26, 1709 in Reims , † 1798 in Bologna ) was auxiliary bishop in Reims and the last bishop of the Glandèves diocese, which perished in the French Revolution .

Life

Henri Hachette was the eldest of the three children of Adam Hachette, lieutenant civil and conseiller du Roi and Jeanne Canelle, who owned the lordship of Portes. He studied at the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris and received minor orders in 1732; Ordained a deacon on September 21, 1737, he received a canon position at Reims Cathedral the following year . With his ordination (March 12, 1740) he was appointed archdeacon and vicar general of the diocese. In 1742 he received his doctorate in theology and in 1748 Commendatarabbot of the Vermand Premonstratensian Abbey in the Diocese of Noyon . In the same year he also became a general visitator of the Carmelites in France.

1755 determined auxiliary bishop in Reims, he was the consistory of 21 July 1755 as bishop of Sidon in partibus ( titular ) präkonisiert and received on August 31, in the parish church of Saint-Sulpice from the hand of Nuncio Luigi Gualterio episcopal ordination.

Since Archbishop Rohan resided permanently in Strasbourg in his capacity as Grand Provost of the chapter there , the administration of the Archdiocese of Reims was solely on the shoulders of the Auxiliary Bishop. When Archbishop Rohan died in 1762, Hachette remained in office under his successor Roche-Aymon until he received a coadjutor in 1766 in Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord . After the resignation of the Bishop of Glandèves, Gaspard de Tressemanes , in 1771, Hachette received from Louis XV. his bishop's chair was preconized on September 23, 1771 and received the certificate of appointment on June 22, 1772.

Hachette went to Glandèves and carefully visited his parishes. In 1775 the ecclesiastical province of Embrun sent him as a deputy to the general assembly of the French clergy. In the same year he was one of the officially crowned King Louis XVI. Bishops invited to Reims. In 1776 he assisted Nuncio Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj in the ordination of the bishops of Clermont, François de Bonnal , and Saint-Flour, Anne-Hippolyte de Bonteville . In 1780, as admirer of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, he introduced this festival in his diocese.

He protested strongly against the abolition of the diocese by the National Assembly . He first retired to the part of his diocese outside France, to Puget-Théniers in the county of Nice , then to Nice and after the French conquest of Nice in 1792 to Fossano in Piedmont . From exile he sent several letters to his diocese and Rome. In 1798 he died in Bologna . The diocese of Glandèves , suppressed by the constitution of 1790, was dissolved by the concordat of July 15, 1801 .

Works

• Catéchisme sur les affaires du temps.
• La Dévotion au Cœur de Marie. Nice 1792, Paris 1825 (a collection of sermons, instructions and pastoral letters)
• Lettre pastorale. (against the oath of the clergy on the French civil constitution)
• Lettre aux missionaires de Notre-Dame de la Garde d'Avignon. 1795. (on the death of the Superior General M. Imbart)

literature

• Biography universal, ancient et modern. Paris: Michaud, 1839
• Nouvelle biography générale. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1852–1866.
• Honoré Fisquet : La France pontificale (" Gallia Christiana ") . Paris, Repos, 1864-1871.
• Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Paris [et al.]: Picard [et al.], 1891
• Henri Saint-Aubin: Un prélat rémois: Mgr Hachette des Portes. 1709–1795, Reims, Impr. Du Nord-Est, 1936