Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé

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Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé (born February 27, 1732 in Rennes , † August 22, 1804 in Angervilliers ) was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, cardinal and member of the Académie française .

Life

Bishop and Archbishop in the Ancien Régime

Cardinal Boisgelin came from an aristocratic Breton family. He attended the Collège du Plessis together with Turgot (with whom he remained friends), André Morellet , Loménie de Brienne and Jérôme Champion de Cicé (1735-1810), went through the Saint-Sulpice seminary and studied at the Sorbonne . He was ordained a priest in 1755 and was vicar general in the Archdiocese of Rouen from 1756 . In 1758 he stayed for the election of Pope Clement XIII. in Rome, then at the court of Parma . In 1765, at the age of 33, he was ordained Bishop of Lavaur (40 km northeast of Toulouse ) and proved to be an active sovereign who tried to develop the infrastructure. Through numerous trips to Paris with highly acclaimed funeral speeches, he ensured that his person was valued and in 1771 was appointed Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence . As such, he was at the same time powerful and active president of the Etats de Provence (Provencal estates). In 1776 he was elected to the Académie française (seat no. 13).

Revolution, emigration, return and cardinalate

As a member (and temporarily chairman) of the Estates General and the Constituent Assembly from 1789, he was accommodating in the initial phase of the French Revolution, in which he played a leading role as a mediator between the extremes. To save the state finances he offered in April 1790 in vain 400 million from the church property. He signed the civil constitution of the clergy , but was then given by Pope Pius VI. disavowed who refused it. Thereupon he stood behind the Pope, lost his archbishopric and went into exile in England in September 1792. In 1801 he complied with Pope Pius VII's request , officially resigned from his office as Archbishop of Aix and returned to France in early 1802. In 1802 he was appointed Archbishop of Tours and in gratitude for his approval of the Concordat of 1801 (and his recruitment to his fellow bishops) in January 1803 made cardinal. In August 1804 he died with his family in Angervilliers (near Rambouillet ) at the age of 72. He was a Grand Officer in the Legion of Honor .

Works (selection)

  • Oraison funèbre de Stanislas Leszczynski, roi de Pologne . Paris 1766, 2004.
  • (Translator) Les Héroïdes d'Ovide , traduites en vers français. Philadelphie 1786. Paris 1824. ( Heroides )
  • L'Art de juger par l'analyse des idées . Moutard, Paris 1789.
  • Considérations sur la paix publique, adressées aux chefs de la Révolution . 1791.
  • Le psalmiste . Précéde d'un discours préliminaire sur la poésie sacrée. London 1799.
  • Oeuvres du cardinal de Boisgelin contenant ses oraisons funèbres, discours, traités philosophiques et politiques, la traduction en vers français des Psaumes de David, précédées d'une notice historique . F. Guitel, Paris 1818. [1] (The biographical appraisal, pp. XVII – LXXIV, is from Louis-François de Bausset-Roquefort .)

literature

  • Frédéric de Berthier de Grandry: Boisgelin. L'homme du Concordat, sa vie, son oeuvre & sa famille . Self-published, Paris 2010.
  • Eugène Lavaquery: Le cardinal de Boisgelin 1732-1804 . 2 vols. Plon, Paris 1920–1921. [2]

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personal data
SURNAME Boisgelin de Cucé, Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boisgelin de Cucé, Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic archbishop, cardinal and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1804
Place of death Angervilliers