Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet

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Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (born September 15, 1700 in Saint-Pol-de-Léon , today's Finistère department , † March 21, 1784 in Paris ) was a French bishop .

Life

Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet was born on September 15, 1700 in Saint-Pol-de-Léon in Brittany . His parents were Alain du Coëtlosquet, seigneur des Isles, and Gilette de Kergus. In 1718, after receiving the tonsure , Jean-Gilles went to Paris, where his relative Charles du Plessis d'Argentré , almsman of King Louis XV. to take care of his further education. He studied theology at the Sorbonne , was ordained a priest on April 16, 1729 and shortly thereafter Vicar General Duplessis, who had been Bishop of Tulle since 1723 . A few months later he moved to Bourges in the same capacity to assist the newly appointed Archbishop Rochefoucauld ; the appointed Coëtlosquet in 1732 as chancellor of the diocese. - Appointed Bishop of Limoges by the King on September 22, 1739, Coëtlosquet was ordained on February 7, 1740 in Paris by Archbishop Rochefoucauld.

The diocese of Limoges was one of the largest dioceses in France; its population consisted largely of poor rural people. Bishop Coëtlosquet eagerly set about his new task. For the next 16 years he traveled all over the diocese, visiting even the most remote parishes and striving to reduce ignorance and poverty through prudent administration. When King Ludwig wanted to promote him to Archbishop of Tours in 1750, he refused and stayed with his flock. Only when the king entrusted him with the upbringing of his grandson, the seven-year-old Duke of Burgundy, did Coëtlosquet resign from his episcopate and go to Versailles . After the prince's death in 1761, he took over the education of the Duke of Berry ( Louis XVI. ) And was elected to the Académie Française in the same year - and was given preference over Diderot . In 1762 and 1764, respectively, he took over the education of the younger brothers of the heir to the throne: the Count of Provence ( Louis XVIII. ) And the Count of Artois ( Charles X ). After his job as a prince educator ended with the marriage of the last prince in 1771, the king appointed him almsman to the Count of Provence, who two months later also entrusted him with the administration of his charities.

King Louis XVI appointed his former Preceptor on the day of his anointing in Reims (June 13, 1775) as Commander of the Order of St. Mind . When a cardinalate for France was to be awarded in 1778, King Ludwig tried to get Bishop Coëtlosquet to accept it; But out of admiration for his former Archbishop Rochefoucauld he renounced in favor of the Archbishop of Rouen , Dominique de La Rochefoucauld , and retired - after being relieved of his duties - to the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris, where he died in 1784 and in a simple Ceremony was also buried.

literature

  • Hoefer: Nouvelle biography générale. Firmin Didot, Paris 1852–1866.
  • Prosper Jean Levot: biography bretonne. Cauderan [et al.], Vannes [et al.] 1852-1857.
  • Prosper Vedrenne: Fauteuils de l'Académie française. Blond & Barral, Paris 1887–1888.
  • Anatole Granges de Surgères: Iconography bretonne. Plihon et Hervé [et al.], Rennes [et al.] 1888-1889.
  • Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Picard [et al.], Paris [et al.] 1891.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John McManners: Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramification. Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-1982-7003-4 , p. 250
personal data
SURNAME Coëtlosquet, Jean-Gilles you
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Pol-de-Léon
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1784
Place of death Paris