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Jean-Baptiste Miroudot Du Bourg
Jean-Baptiste Miroudot du Bourg (6 August 1722, Vesoul – 24 May 1798, Hôpital des incurables, Paris) was a French bishop. Life On 15 April 1776, he was made Latin bishop of Baghdad, the seat of a titular see under the bishop of Genoa and likewise appointed French consul to Baghdad. He set out for the city in 1781 with his nephew Pierre-Joseph de Beauchamp, Joseph de Beauchamp as his vicar general, astronomer, and correspondent to the Académie des sciences. Miroudot stayed a few months in Aleppo, but did not move on to Baghdad, using health reasons as a pretext. He finally returned to France,Régis Pluchet, L'extraordinaire voyage d'un botaniste en Perse. André Michaux : 1782–1785, éditions Privat, 2014. where in 1783, he was dismissed as consul to Baghdad. On 24 February 1791, he assisted Talleyrand in the consecration of the first constitutional bishops, Louis-Alexandre Expilly de La Poipe, bishop of Finistère, and Claude Marolles, bishop of Aisne (department), Aisne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesoul
Vesoul () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France. It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul which covers 20 municipalities together had inhabitants while the Urban area of Vesoul which includes 78 municipalities, had inhabitants. Its inhabitants are known in French as ''Vésuliens''. Built on top of the hill of La Motte in the first millennium under the name of ''Castrum Vesulium'', the city gradually evolved into a European commercial and economic center. At the end of the Middle Ages, the city experienced a challenging period beset with plagues, epidemics, and localized conflict. Main urban center of the department, Vesoul is also home to a major PSA parts manufacturing plant and to the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema. It was immortalized by Jacques Brel in his 1968 song "Vesoul". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
